Genesis For People On The Go

. ● Gen 24:23-25 . . Pray tell me; he said: whose daughter are you? Is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night? She replied: I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor. And she went on: There is plenty of straw and feed at home, and also room to...

. ● Gen 24:16d . . She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up. The "spring" in this case was a small pool of water fed by an aquifer, which is different than an artesian well. Artesians gush, while aquifers seep. Some of the shafts of ancient man-made wells in that part of the...

. ● Gen 24:11 . . He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city, at evening time, the time when women come out to draw water. "evening time" is from an ambiguous word that indicates any time between high noon and sunset as opposed to morning which can indicate any time between...

. ● Gen 24:3c-4 . . that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell, but will go to the land of my birth and get a wife for my son Isaac. The words "land of my birth" can also mean "to my country and to my relatives." That is exactly how the...

. ● Gen 24:1a . . Abraham was now old, advanced in years, Abraham was 100 when Isaac was born (Gen 21:25). The lad was 40 when he married Rebecca (Gen 25:20). So that makes Abraham 140 at this point in the record. But although Abraham was worn; he wasn't worn out. Abraham still had plenty of...

. ● Gen 23:10a . . Ephron was present among the Hittites; so Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, all who entered the gate of his town, Ephron didn't have to answer personally; but chose to of his own volition. People who actually lived in a town's proper, were...

. ● Gen 23:1-2a . . Sarah's lifetime-- the span of Sarah's life --came to one hundred and twenty-seven years. Sarah died in Kiriath-arba-- now Hebron --in the land of Canaan; This is the only woman in the entire Old Testament for whom an age is given at the time of her death. Isaac was 37 at...

. ● Gen 22:13 . .When Abraham looked up, his eye fell upon a ram, caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son. The covenant that Moses' people agreed upon with God as per Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and...

. ● Gen 22:11 . .Then an angel of God called to him from heaven: Abraham! Abraham! And he answered: Here I am. This particular celestial messenger is not only going to speak about God, and speak for God, but will also speak for itself as God. ● Gen 22:12a . . And he said: Do not raise your...

. ● Gen 22:9b . . Abraham built an altar there; he laid out the wood; This was a place where, apparently, Abraham had never worshipped before because he had to build an altar. ● Gen 22:9c . . he bound his son Isaac; If Isaac was old enough, and strong enough, to shoulder a load of firewood...

. ● Gen 22:6b-7 . . He himself took the firestone and the knife; and the two walked off together. Then Isaac said to his father Abraham: Father! And he answered: Yes, my son. And he said: Here are the firestone and the wood; but where is the sheep for the burnt offering? Oops! That's kind of...

. ● Gen 22:2d . . on one of the heights that I will point out to you. Precisely where the land of Moriah was, and the specific height God chose, is impossible to tell for sure. Abraham knew where the land was but he wouldn't know the exact spot until he got there. It's just as well to keep it...

. ● Gen 22:1a . . Some time afterward, God put Abraham to the test. This particular section of scripture deals with an ancient incident known in sacred Jewish literature as The Akedah (the binding of Isaac). The Akedah portrays the very first human sacrifice ever performed in the Bible by...

. ● Gen 21:25-26 . .Then Abraham reproached Abimelech for the well of water which the servants of Abimelech had seized. But Abimelech said: I do not know who did this; you did not tell me, nor have I heard of it until today. Abraham may have previously reported the incident to a bureaucrat, who...

. ● Gen 21:22a . . At that time While Hagar and Ishmael were busy re-inventing their lives; a seemingly trivial event occurred in Abraham's life. These kinds of events may seem superfluous, but they're actually pretty handy for giving us some insight into Abraham the man; i.e. his personality...

. ● Gen 21:17a . . God heard the cry of the boy, I don't think Ishmael, at near eighteen, was bawling his eyes out like a little girl. Rather; his "cry" was a plea for help. Exactly what he said is unknown. But God heard him and responded. I strongly suspect that in those seventeen or so years...

. ● Gen 21:14d . . And she wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. The wilderness of Beer-sheba is about 50 miles south of Hebron. The Hebrew word for "wandered about" is from ta'ah (taw-aw') which means to vacillate. Webster's defines "vacillate" as: to waver in mind, will, or...

. ● Gen 21:13 . . As for the son of the slave-woman, I will make a nation of him, too, for he is your seed. Abraham certainly must have been worried what would become of Ishmael; so God reassured him his biological boy would be just fine. I think it's significant that God didn't refer to...

. ● Gen 21:10-11 . . Sarah said to Abraham: Cast out that slave-woman and her son, for the son of that slave shall not share in the inheritance with my son Isaac. The matter distressed Abraham greatly, for it concerned a son of his own. NOTE: By the customs of that day, Ishmael was Sarah's son...

. ● Gen 21:1 . . God took note of Sarah as He had promised, and God did for Sarah as He had spoken. Because God's word is sometimes slow and long in coming to pass, people are often inclined to scoff at what it says and lose confidence in His testimony. The Word told Noah that a flood was...