Sarai is impatient and takes control of gaining a child by giving Hagar, her Egyptian servant, to Abram as a wife. Abram suffers from the corruption of Adam by collapsing to her will instead of bearing responsibility for supporting her with the promises and assurances (and ways) of God.
What trouble follows and who blames whom when Abram, Sari, and Hagar all contradict God’s design for us? Hagar runs away and the Son of God, “the Angel of the Lord,” restores her with His Word; Ishmael will be a people in the midst of Abram’s other descendants.