Who Weeps for Hagar’s Children?

And she went, and sat down apart from him a good way off, as it were
a bowshot; for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat apart from him, and lifted up her voice, and wept (Gen. 21:16). The woman was, of course, Hagar. The child was Ishmael. Hagar was the handmaid of Sarah, Abraham’s wife. We often speak of Abraham, Sarah, and Isaac. For Christians and Jewish people, th