Maids who played
important parts in the lives of Bible Characters
Hagar
Genesis 16:-1-8
1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she
had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar;
2 so she said to Abram, “The LORD has kept me from having
children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through
her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
3 So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai
his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be
his wife.
4 He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she
was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the
wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms, and now that she knows she
is pregnant, she despises me. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
6 “Your servant is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her
whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.
7 The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the
desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.
8 And he said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come
from, and where are you going?” “I'm running away from my mistress Sarai,” she
answered.
Zilpah
Genesis 29:24
And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter as her
maidservant.
Genesis 30:9-12
9 When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she
took her maidservant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
10 Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
11 Then Leah said, “What good fortune!” So she named him Gad.
12 Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.
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