Galatians 4:24

Hagar And Sarah Represent Two Covenants

²³ But the one by the slave was born according to the impulse of the flesh, while the one by the free woman was born as the result of a promise. ²⁴ These things are illustrations, for the women represent the two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery—this is Hagar. ²⁵ Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

Law of Moses

Mount Sinai

Agar

Hagar

Israelites

Moses

Sarah

Sinai

1 Corinthians 10:11

Now these things happened to them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Genesis 16:3-4

So Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian slave, and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife for him. This happened after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan 10 years.

Genesis 16:8

He said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?”

She replied, “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai.”

Genesis 16:15-16

So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son Hagar had.

Genesis 21:9-13

But Sarah saw the son mocking—the one Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham.

Genesis 25:12

These are the family records of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave, bore to Abraham.

Deuteronomy 33:2

He said:

The Lord came from Sinai
and appeared to them from Seir;
He shone on them from Mount Paran
and came with ten thousand holy ones,
with lightning from His right hand for them.

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, “Oh, Lord God, they are saying of me, ‘Isn’t he just posing riddles?’”

Hosea 11:10

They will follow the Lord;
He will roar like a lion.
When He roars,
His children will come trembling from the west.

Matthew 13:35

so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled:

I will open My mouth in parables;
I will declare things kept secret
from the foundation of the world.

Luke 22:19-20

And He took bread, gave thanks, broke it, gave it to them, and said, “This is My body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.”

Romans 8:15

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!”

1 Corinthians 10:4

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ.

Galatians 3:15-21

Brothers, I’m using a human illustration. No one sets aside or makes additions to even a human covenant that has been ratified.

Galatians 4:25

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

Galatians 5:1

Christ has liberated us to be free. Stand firm then and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Hebrews 7:22

So Jesus has also become the guarantee of a better covenant.

Hebrews 8:6-13

But Jesus has now obtained a superior ministry, and to that degree He is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been legally enacted on better promises.

Hebrews 9:15-24

Therefore, He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance, because a death has taken place for redemption from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

Hebrews 10:15-18

The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. For after He says:

Hebrews 11:19

He considered God to be able even to raise someone from the dead, and as an illustration, he received him back.

Hebrews 12:24

to Jesus (mediator of a new covenant), and to the sprinkled blood, which says better things than the blood of Abel.

Hebrews 13:20

Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus—the great Shepherd of the sheep—with the blood of the everlasting covenant,