What was the end of Sarah ( the Bible ) Abrahams wife ?
Died at Thought of the Sacrifice of Isaac. Legends connect Sarah’s death with the sacrifice of Isaac, there being two versions of the story. According to one, Samael came to her and said: “Your old husband seized the boy and sacrificed him. The boy wailed and wept; but he could not escape from his father.” Sarah began to cry bitterly, and ultimately died of her grief. According to the other legend, Satan, disguised as an old man, came to Sarah and told her that Isaac had been sacrificed. She, believing it to be true, cried bitterly, but soon comforted herself with the thought that the sacrifice had been offered at the command of God. She started from Beer-sheba to Hebron, asking every one she met if he knew in which direction Abraham had gone. Then Satan came again in human shape and told her that it was not true that Isaac had been sacrificed, but that he was living and would soon return with his father. Sarah, on hearing this, died of joy at Hebron. Abraham and Isaac returned to thei
It is interesting that Sarah was patient to be given a son, but not patient enough, and had her maid Hagar to sleep with her husband. Irony is Hagar became pregnant, pointing to Sarah that it was SHE was the reason why they did not have a child. Once she herself was given a son (her first born, the second born of Abraham) she wanted the “other woman” to go away… thrown into the desert. Perhaps if she was not a righteous woman, she would have had her killed. The Almighty wanted Abraham to do her bidding, as he had plan number two in store. Sarah saw Hager not as another human being but a “slave woman” as if being enslaved reduces your humanity. Thus it was Sarah who laid the foundations for the events that took place in her own lineage. First, her own grandson Jacob or Israel married two free women and TWO slave women, concubines of his wives. Thus, Sarah who wanted her lineage to be from a “free woman” herself, in fact had her lineage continue through TWO slave women of outside women
