angel of the Lord, as before, appeared unto her, and she was comforted and
delivered out of her distresses (Genesis 21:18, 19).
Ishmael afterwards established himself in the wilderness of Paran, where
he married an Egyptian (Genesis 21:20,21).
“Hagar” allegorically represents the Jewish church (Galatians 4:24), in
bondage to the ceremonial law; while “Sarah” represents the Christian
church, which is free.
- HAGARENE or Hagarite. (1.) One of David’s mighty men (1 Chronicles
11:38), the son of a foreigner.
(2.) Used of Jaziz (1 Chronicles 27:31), who was over David’s flocks. “A
Hagarite had charge of David’s flocks, and an Ishmaelite of his herds,
because the animals were pastured in districts where these nomadic people
were accustomed to feed their cattle.”
(3.) In the reign of Saul a great war was waged between the trans-Jordanic
tribes and the Hagarites (1 Chronicles 5), who were overcome in battle. A
great booty was captured by the two tribes and a half, and they took
possession of the land of the Hagarites.
Subsequently the “Hagarenes,” still residing in the land on the east of
Jordan, entered into a conspiracy against Israel (comp. Psalm 83:6). They
are distinguished from the Ishmaelites.
- HAGGAI festive, one of the twelve so-called minor prophets. He was the
first of the three (Zechariah, his contemporary, and Malachi, who was
about one hundred years later, being the other two) whose ministry
belonged to the period of Jewish history which began after the return from
captivity in Babylon. Scarcely anything is known of his personal history.
He may have been one of the captives taken to Babylon by
Nebuchadnezzar. He began his ministry about sixteen years after the
Return. The work of rebuilding the temple had been put a stop to through
the intrigues of the Samaritans. After having been suspended for fifteen
years, the work was resumed through the efforts of Haggai and Zechariah
(Ezra 6:14), who by their exhortations roused the people from their
lethargy, and induced them to take advantage of the favourable
opportunity that had arisen in a change in the policy of the Persian
government. (See DARIUS [2].) Haggai’s prophecies have thus been
characterized:, “There is a ponderous and simple dignity in the emphatic