She and her son wandered aimlessly until their water was completely consumed. Abraham gave Hagar bread and water then sent them into the wilderness of Beersheba.

Įarly the next morning, Abraham brought Hagar and Ishmael out together. Ishmael and Isaac buried Abraham together (Gen 25:9). Later, before Abraham died, he gave gifts to Ishmael and his other sons and sent them away from Isaac (Gen 25:6). Abraham was greatly distressed but God told Abraham to do as his wife commanded because God's promise would be carried out through Isaac Ishmael would be made into a great nation as well because he was Abraham's offspring. She declared that Ishmael would not share in Isaac's inheritance. She was so upset by the idea of Ishmael inheriting their wealth, that she demanded that Abraham send Hagar and her son away. At a celebration after Isaac was weaned, Sarah found the teenage Ishmael mocking her son (Gen 21:9). Later, Sarah gave birth to Isaac, and the tension between the women returned. Hagar and the Angel in the Wilderness, by Francesco Cozza

They say that Hagar was the daughter of the pharaoh of Egypt thus making her a princess rather than a slave girl or a bondswoman. Moreover the notion of Hagar being a slave girl is denied by some modern scholars. There is no direct mention of Hagar in the Quran, which does not declare her explicitly a free woman or as a maid of Sarah or Abraham. She then returned to Abraham and Sarah, and soon gave birth to a son, whom she named as the angel had instructed. Afterward, Hagar referred to God as ' El Roi'. Then she was told to call her son Ishmael. At a spring en route, an angel appeared to Hagar, who instructed her to return to Sarah, so that she may bear a child who 'shall be a wild ass of a man: his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him and he shall dwell in the face of all his brethren' ( Genesis 16:12). Hagar fled into the desert on her way to Shur. Sarah complained to Abraham, and treated Hagar harshly, and Hagar ran away. Hagar became pregnant, and tension arose between the two women. Sarah had been barren for a long time and sought a way to fulfill God's promise to Abraham that Abraham would be father of many nations, especially since they were getting older, so she offered Hagar to Abraham as a second wife. According to the Bible, Hagar was the Egyptian slave of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

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