Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”
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Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”
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And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
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And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.'
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Passages linked to Genesis 16:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Peter 5:5-6 Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,
- Ecclesiastes 10:4 If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.
- Ephesians 5:21 subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
- Ephesians 6:5-6 Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ, not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
- Titus 2:9 Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting,
- 1 Peter 2:18-25 Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect: not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked. For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God. For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God. For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps, who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.” When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds. For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain God rejecteth none estate of people in their misery,…
God rejecteth none estate of people in their misery, but sendeth them comfort.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 16:9 And the angel of the LORD said…
Gen 16:9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
Ver. 9. Return to thy mistress.] When now she had smarted, she is in case to be counselled. There is great skill in the choice of a fit time for admonition. It is not to give a man a purge in a fever-fit.
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Submit thyself.] Heb., Afflict thyself, or suffer thyself to be afflicted or humbled under her hands. The like counsel is given us all by St James, "Be afflicted, and weep, and mourn," &c, "Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, and he will lift you up" {Jas 4:9-10}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the angel of the Lord said unto her,....…
And the angel of the Lord said unto her,.... The same angel; though Jarchi thinks that one angel after another was sent, and that at every speech there was a fresh angel; and because this phrase is repeated again and again, some of the Rabbins have fancied there were four angels (r), and others five, but without any reason:
return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands; go back to her, humble thyself before her, acknowledge thy fault, enter into her service again, and be subject to her; do her work and business, bear her corrections and chastisements; and "suffer thyself to be afflicted" (s), by her, as the word may be rendered; take all patiently from her, which will be much more to thy profit and advantage than to pursue the course thou art in: and the more to encourage her to take his advice, he promises the following things, Gen 16:10.
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(r) Bereshit Rabba, ut supra. (sect. 45. fol. 41. 1.) (s) "te patere affligi", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "quid si, patere te affligi?" Drusius.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain And the angel said, Return to thy mistress, and…
And the angel said, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hand - Go home and humble thyself for what thou hast done amiss, and resolve for the future to behave thyself better.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Humble thyself. The angel, in God’s name, does not…
Humble thyself. The angel, in God’s name, does not blame Sarai; but gives Agar to understand that the fault was wholly on her side. (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 9. Return… submit — The only way to attain…
9. Return… submit — The only way to attain the true freedom and independence. The word rendered submit thyself is the Hithpael form of the verb rendered dealt hardly in Gen_16:6. עני, rendered affliction in Gen_16:11, is from the same root. The sense is: Go back, and allow thyself to be afflicted under the hands of thy mistress. Her reward for such self-humiliation is announced in the next three verses.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. And the angel of the Lord said] Notice…
9. And the angel of the Lord said] Notice the triple repetition of these sayings of the Angel in Gen_16:9-11, containing in Gen_16:9 the injunction to return and submit, in Gen_16:10 the promise of a multitude of descendants, and in Gen_16:11-12 the name and character of her future son. Gen_16:9-10 both begin with the same words as Gen_16:11, and probably are editorial additions from different versions of the story.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (9) Submit thyself.—Heb., humble thyself. It is the verb…
(9) Submit thyself.—Heb., humble thyself. It is the verb translated dealt hardly in Gen_16:6. The angel therefore commands her to take the position which Sarai was forcing upon her; and by so doing proves to us that there had been no personal maltreatment. Commentators have taken this notion, not from the Hebrew, but from the English Version.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And the angel of the Lord said unto her…
And the angel of the Lord said unto her as Paul afterwards practically said to Onesimus, the runaway slave of Philemon (vide Philippians 12)return to thy mistress, and submit thyself the verb here employed is the same as that, which the historian uses to describe Sarah s conduct towards her (Ver. 6); its meaning obviously is that she should meekly resign herself to the ungracious and oppressive treatment of her mistressunder her hands.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain angel (See Scofield "Heb 1:4").
angel (See Scofield "Heb 1:4").
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 The angel of Yahweh said to her
The angel of Yahweh said to her
"The angel of Yahweh said to Hagar"
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the angel of Yahweh
See the note about this phrase in Genesis 16:7.
your mistress
Sarai. See how "her mistress" is translated in Genesis 16:4.
the angel of Yahweh said to her, "I
When he said "I," he was referring to Yahweh. When translating what is in the quote, do it as the angel of Yahweh did and use the word "I" when referring to Yahweh.
I will greatly multiply your descendants
"I will give you very many descendants"
too numerous to count
"so many that no one will be able to count them"
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angel
Yahweh
authority
descend
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