3 Thus, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, his wife Sarai took her maid, Hagar the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his concubine.
2 Sarai said to Abram: " The LORD has kept me from bearing children. Have intercourse, then, with my maid; perhaps I shall have sons through her." Abram heeded Sarai's request.
Please pay no attention, my lord, to that wicked man Nabal. He is just like his name—his name means Fool, and folly goes with him. And as for me, your servant, I did not see the men my lord sent.
He went toward her, and she asked, " Are you Joab" ? " I am, " he answered. She said, " Listen to what your servant has to say" . " I'm listening, " he said.
" About this time next year, " Elisha said, " you will hold a son in your arms" . " No, my lord" ! she objected. " Please, man of God, don't mislead your servant" !
She told the old woman, " This must go to Shen under cover of darkness, for any mistake will be fatal." She ordered one of the maids to give her a length of brocade and a length of silk gauze.
Because of this the master disliked the maidservant, but offered her in marriage to Wu the Elder, and also gave her some presents, but he declined to receive any money from Wu the Elder.
Yet it was through her that thou didst not keep silence toward me; and in rejecting her counsel I was rejecting thee--I, her son, " the son of thy handmaid, thy servant."
In any case, after the maidservant was named Zhi Gui by Song Jixin, the father and son relationship between Song Jixin and Master Song was confirmed beyond a doubt.