Genesis 16:10

The angel promised to multiply Hagar's offspring beyond counting. God extended a gracious blessing to the afflicted servant.

Cross-references · 23

• Gen 17:20As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
• Ps 83:6–7the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,
• Gen 21:13But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”
• Gen 22:15–18And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time,
• Gen 21:18Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
• Gen 25:12–18This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.
• Gen 32:24–30So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
• Zech 2:8–9For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—
• Mal 3:1“Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight—see, He is coming,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• Acts 7:30–38After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
• Judg 13:16–22And the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was the angel of the LORD.
• Gen 31:11–13In that dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ And I replied, ‘Here I am.’
• Exod 3:2–6There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
• Gen 21:16Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.
• Judg 6:11Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
• Judg 6:16“Surely I will be with you,” the LORD replied, “and you will strike down all the Midianites as one man.”
• Hos 12:3–5In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.
• Judg 6:21–24Then the angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And fire flared from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.
• Judg 2:1–3Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,
• Gen 48:15–16Then he blessed Joseph and said: “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
• John 1:18No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
• Isa 63:9In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
• 1 Tim 6:16He alone is immortal and dwells in unapproachable light. No one has ever seen Him, nor can anyone see Him. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.

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