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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 don't really know anything about her origin. tradition tells us that she is egyptian, and of course, their stories intertwine quite tragically. as years passed, sarah's patience grew thin, and she questioned god's promise that she would have children of her own. in a moment of weakness, sarah hatched a plan in the hope of providing abraham with a child. sarah turns to hagar in her moment of weakness and sees ...

The first time that hagar tries to run away. god says to her, no, go back. i can't 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 would finally be fulfilled. when god comes to tell abraham that he will have this son. sarah is in ...

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 wasn't his chosen love, and yet she was sent in to him and he feels very deceived. so he goes in anger of the girl's 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 the real rachel. i think at that point, everybody's in a really bad place because. leah. no, she's ...

It's a feature story that is not about a woman of israel. it's 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 they're 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 time and place, it was necessary. so naomi, her mother in law, says, i'm going to go home, back to...

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 doesn't give us that much information about hannah. interestingly enough, we don't 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 married to elcano, a common man from an obscure village. what does leap out at us in scripture is her...