Hagar

[Gen. 16:3] And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
Hagar was an Egyptian handmaid and became the second wife to Abram.
16:4. Conceives after the first intimacy with Abram. Obedient but became haughty, slanderous, and isolative.
16:5 My wrong – means ‘what is stolen from me’, husband remained silent to the toughing instead of speaking up for his wife.
16:6-9. Ran away from the situation and was told to return to submit herself to her master, face your problems.
16:11. G-d will bless her with a son, and named him, because He heard her affliction. Only 3 other children in the Bible were given names before they were born:
Isaac Gen. 17:19; Solomon 1 Chron. 22:9 and Josiah 1 Kgs. 13:2.
25:13-18 and 17:20.
Her son will produce 12 princes – the Arabs, Islam, and Moslem.
21:14. Divorced, and given food and water then sent away, early, that the wanderers might reach an asylum before noon. Bread includes all sorts of victuals. The bottle, a leathern vessel, formed of the entire skin of a lamb or kid sewed up, with the legs for handles, usually carried over the shoulder, or dragged behind. Jewish Sages say that when Abraham sent Hagar away, he bound a water barrel around her waist, allowing it to drag behind her, so that he would know which way they went. A tale is told that 3 years after their departure, Abraham related to Sarah that he wish to go and see his son again, swearing to her that when he arrived at Ishmael’s dwelling, he wouldn’t even descend from his camel, he made 2 such trips. Ishmael was a lad of 17 years old, it is customary for Arab chiefs to send out their sons at such an age to do for themselves: often with nothing but a few days’ provision in a bag.
21:21. On a father’s death, the mother looks for a wife for her son, however young: and as Ishmael was not virtually deprived of his fathers, his mother set about forming a marriage connection for him, among her relatives.
21:15 As she ran out of previsions for herself and her 17 year old son, she leaves her son undo the shade of a shrub and moved the distant of an arrow may as not to watch him die.
21:16. She prayed and wept – her prayers were not answered but her son’s prayer was.
21:19. Opening her eyes - means to receive new sources of knowledge.
21:21. She picks an Egyptian wife for her son. On a father’s death, the mother looks for a wife for her son, however young: and as Ishmael was now virtually deprived of his father, his mother sets about forming a marriage connection for him, among her relatives.
There was a Moslem legend that Hagar and her son is buried in the sacred Kaaba in Mecca.
8 things about Hagar:
She was obedient as long as she had no power.
She despised her mistress.
She was the only servant to ever emerge from Egypt free and unscathed.
When punish, she fled.
She cried out to G-d.
She mocks her mistress.
There was no harmony in her home.
She felt hopeless and sorrowful.
She picks a wife from her own people for her son.
Sarai... gave her to... Abram to be his wife – “Wife” is here used to describe an inferior, though not degrading, relation, in countries where polygamy prevails. In the case of these female slaves, who are the personal property of his lady, being purchased before her marriage or given as a special present to her, no one can become the husband’s secondary wife without her mistress consent or permission. This usage seems to have prevailed in patriarchal times; and Hagar, Sarai’s slave, of whom she had the entire right of disposing, was given by her mistress’ spontaneous offer, to be the secondary wife of Abram, in the hope of obtaining the long-look 2 for heir. It was a wrong step - indicating a want of simple reliance on G-d—and Saral was to reap the bitter fruits of her device. 25:1 “And Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.” The Jewish tradition has it that Keturah was none other than Hagar, herself. “Took another wife, this time, he took her by Divine command. She is called Keturah because she united nobility and piety “kitrah” in herself. Her actions were beautiful, like incense, the Hebrew word for incense, ketoreth, being closely related to Keturah, her name. Keturah (literally, “attached”). Tradition says that Abraham sent for her and took her to wife. From here we learn that a change of name acts as an atonement for sin, since that was the reason why her name was changed. The term vayoseph (translated here as “another,” but literally, “and he added”) indicates not that Abraham took another wife, but that he took again his former spouse whom he had dived out on account of Ishmael, and who had made a change in her name symbolical of her change of life.