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Sarah and hagar really do come across as polar opposites in scripture. sarah is from a noble family, definitely a kings woman of abraham. and hagar, of course, is not. she is enslaved. we dont really know anything about her origin. tradition tells us that she is egyptian, and of course, their stories intertwine quite tragically. as years passed, sarahs patience grew thin, and she questioned gods promise that she would have children of her own. in a moment of weakness, sarah hatched a plan in the...

Can abraham to sleep with her maidservant. hagar and then she will adopt the child in pretty standard near eastern custom. and then the child will be raised as theirs. of course, thats not what god has in mind. thats sarahs plan. abraham went along with sarahs plan. but after hagar became pregnant, sarah and hagars relationship began to change. hagar became resentful, and sarahs jealousy took over, like, hours to somebody who is going to be there to serve sarah and not really have any say in wha...

And what ruth does, of course, is go to the fields and pick up the scraps that the harvesters had left, because often it would be enough that they could then grind the wheat and create flour and at least have enough to live in her struggles. ruth began to be noticed. she is noticed by the wealthy landowner boaz, who in fact owned the field that she was struggling on and asked some questions about her and then discovered who she was. boaz, a relative of naomi, took favor on ruth when she humbly p...

Hannah wasnt married to a man who was famous or wealthy. they were a faithful family. we know that about them. but they were a common family. miriam, on the other hand, was the sister of moses, the leader of the israelites, and she was a prophetess. she would have been very prominent. so in that way she would have been very different than hannah. in the book of exodus. we meet miriam. her story is set against the backdrop of ongoing oppression of the jewish people. the jews had multiplied to the...

The first time that hagar tries to run away. god says to her, no, go back. i cant imagine how hard that must have been for her to hear those words, feeling that she would only be mistreated and not really have a life of quality. if they went back, they knew there would be struggle. but hagar talks about that she felt seen by god, the god of the universe. hagar returned to sarah and had a son, ishmael. years later, abraham was again visited by god, who proclaimed sarah would concede. the promise ...

Sarah and hagar really do come across as polar opposites in scripture. sarah is from a noble family, definitely a kings woman of abraham. and hagar, of course, is not. she is enslaved. we dont really know anything about her origin. tradition tells us that she is egyptian, and of course, their stories intertwine quite tragically. as years passed, sarahs patience grew thin, and she questioned gods promise that she would have children of her own. in a moment of weakness, sarah hatched a plan in the...

The first time that hagar tries to run away. god says to her, no, go back. i cant imagine how hard that must have been for her to hear those words, feeling that she would only be mistreated and not really have a life of quality. if they went back, they knew there would be struggle. but hagar talks about that she felt seen by god, the god of the universe. hagar returned to sarah and had a son, ishmael. years later, abraham was again visited by god, who proclaimed sarah would concede. the promise ...

Rachel has to feel devastated that her older sister is now married to this man. leah, you have to wonder how she felt knowing that she was being snuck in. she wasnt his chosen love, and yet she was sent in to him and he feels very deceived. so he goes in anger of the girls father and says, what have you done? laban, unapologetic, proposed a new deal to jacob. the deal is now you can marry rachel, but you can have to work another seven years for her. jacob accepted these terms in order to marry t...

Its a feature story that is not about a woman of israel. its about a know about woman. so, ruth marries into a family that actually left judea because of a famine, difficult circumstances. so she marries into the family when theyre away from their homeland. but years later, tragedy hit the family. ruth and her sister in law, auba, became widows along with their mother in law, naomi. the three of them are now left unprotected without a man in that situation to watch over them in that particular t...

The story of david. but in order to have david, we have to have samuel, the prophet who anointed david to his great calling. and to have samuel, we have to have hannah. so hannah stands right at the center of this unfolding story. scripture doesnt give us that much information about hannah. interestingly enough, we dont know much of her background. she is an ordinary woman from one of the tribes of israel. hannah was not from a powerful family, nor was she the wife of a powerful man. she was mar...