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The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.
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The angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit to her.”
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The angel of the Lord also said to her, “I will so greatly multiply your offspring that they cannot be counted for multitude.”
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And the angel of the Lord said to her, “Now you have conceived and shall bear a son; you shall call him Ishmael, for the Lord has given heed to your affliction.
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The Depravity of Sodom
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and bowed down with his face to the ground.
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When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be consumed in the punishment of the city.”
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And God heard the voice of the boy; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid; for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
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But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
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The angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven,
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The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘To your offspring I will give this land,’ he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
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But he said to me, ‘The Lord, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you and make your way successful. You shall get a wife for my son from my kindred, from my father’s house.
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And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, the top of it reaching to heaven; and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
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Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am!’
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Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him;
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the angel who has redeemed me from all harm, bless the boys; and in them let my name be perpetuated, and the name of my ancestors Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude on the earth.”