Survey of Genesis

Survey of Genesis

Patriarchal History

God’s Covenant with Abraham – Descendents in Egypt

Patriarchal HistoryAbraham

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Survey of Genesis: Patriarchal History

• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11) −Approximate dates of Abraham -

~2166-1991 B.C.−God's Promise to Abram (11:27-12:9)

• Abram's relatives and family (11:27-30)• Tereh = father of Abram (died in Ur of

Chaldeans)• Haran = Abram's brother; father of Lot

(Abram’s nephew)• Nahor = Abram's brother• Sarai = Abram's wife (barren – Why?)• Milcah = Nahor's wife daughter of Haran

−Lived in Ur of the Chaldeans• District in south Babylonia.


• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11)−Terah moves from Ur of Chaldeans to

Haran (11:31-32)• Moved with Abraham and Lot to go to the

land of Canaan.• Settled in Haran.• Tereh died in Haran.• Haran - It was an important commercial

city in Mesopotamia in Abram's time. It was on a main trade route between Babylon and Mediterranean. Small town there today.


• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11)−Lord calls and Covenant with Abram

(12:1-9)• Leaves his relations 75 years old when he

leaves (12:4)• Covenant with Abram (1st)

−Make you a great nation.−Bless you.−All families of the earth will be blessed (12:3).

• Abram takes Lot with him to Canaan.• Shechem (Oak of Moreh) built and alter.

−Between Bethel and Ai built an alter.−Bethel - town 12 miles north of Jerusalem.−Ai - east of Bethel.

• Negev - south country.

Abraham’s Journey to Canaan

God called Abram to leave his native Ur and settled in Haran.

After Terah’s death Abram moved to Canaan, in response to God’s call (Gen. 12: 1–4).

Stop at Shechem & Bethel, Abram moved on to the Negev (south country)

Because of famine, Abram visits Pharaoh in Egypt

Later Abram returned with Lot to the district around Hebron. The distance traveled, from Ur to Egypt and back to Hebron, was some 1,500 miles.

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• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11)−Abram and Sarai in Egypt (12:10-20)

• Abram endangers God's plans by lying about Sarai being his sister (true but also his wife).

• Did Abram do this for profit or protect himself (may have thought they would kill him for his goods and wife)

• God sent plagues upon Pharaoh 's house so sent Abram away


• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11)−Separation of Abram and Lot (13:1-13)

• Abram and Lot separate due to strife between their herdsmen

• Both wealthy• Abram lets Lot choose his land near

Sodom−God Reiterates His Promise to Abram (13:14-

18) – 2nd • Descendants like the dust of the earth• All the land he could see would be theirs.• God moves Abram to the Oak of Mamre (in

Hebron)−Hebron - 25 mi. SW of Jerusalem, Mamre the

older name


• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11)−Abram and the War of the Kings (14:1-

24)• Lot and his family gets carried off after the

king of Sodom is defeated in war.• Abram with his allies, the Amorites,

defeated Chedorlaomer north of Demascus at Hobah and rescued Lot (318 men Gen. 14:14).

• Melchizedek king of Salem (Jerusalem) was a Priest of the most high God.

• Blessed Abram.• God delivered Abram from his enemies.• God continues to bless Abram.


Invaders approach along the King’s Highway

Horites are driven back

below K

adesh

They attack the Amalekites and Amorites

They defeate the five kings, returning w

ith captives, including Lot

Abram pursues invaders to Hobah, recovering all

Abram returns via Salem and is blessed by Melchizedek, the priest of the most high God.

A refugee reports to A

bram about the attack


• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11)−God's Covenant with Abram (15:1-21)

• Divine covenant – An unchangible, divinely impose legal agreement between God and humanity that stipulates the conditions of their relationship.

• First time the word “covenant” is used to describe the relationship between Abram and God.



3rd • They will have an offspring of their own• God will make his descendants like the stars• God makes a covenant with Abram,

Abraham believed and it was reckoned to him as righteousness (see also Rom. 4:9-13)

−Cut the animals in half and passes between them (15:17)

−Given the land between the Nile and the Euphrates

−Given the land between Nile and Euphrates, God tells Abram about events that will take place as He fulfills His promise (15:18)

−Abram's descendants will be "strangers in a land not their own" and enslaved for 400 years

−God will deliver them and an in four generations will bring them to the land of Canaan



• God promise of the land will not come for some 600 years

− Abram's descendants will be "strangers in a land not their own" and enslaved for 400 years

−God will deliver them and an in four generations will bring them to the land of Canaan

• Why did God wait those 600 years to fulfill His promise?

−Sins of the Amorites not yet complete


• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11)−Abram, Sarai, and Hagar (16:1-16)

• Abram and Sarai could not wait for God to keep his promise so Sarai gave Abram her handmaid, Hagar (about 10 years had passed)

−Hagar is a concubine = secondary wife (cultural practice)

• Sarai treated Hagar harshly after she became pregnant so she fled

• Angel of the Lord appears to Hagar and tells her to return (theophany)

−Angel (referred to as Yahweh) promises the child will be blessed with many descendants.

−His name shall be called Ishmael (God hears). (Muslims trace their line back to Ishmael)


• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11)−Reminders of the Covenant God Made

with Abram (17:1-27) 4th • Abram was 86 at the birth of Ishmael (10

years after leaving Ur); was 99 when God confirmed his covenant with Abram

• Was it a conditional covenant or unconditional (see 17:1 walk before me and be blameless)

• Noah's covenant was unconditional



with Abram (17:1-27)• Three reminders that God will fulfill his

covenant. It had been 25 years since they had left Haran so they were probably wondering if God really would keep his promise.

−His name was changed from Abram (exalted father) to Abraham (father of a multitude) to signify God would fulfill his promise to make his descendants like stars in the sky or sand on the seashore

−Circumcision of males on the 8th day as a sign of being people of God's covenant.

−Sarai's name was change to Sarah (Princess) as she would be a mother of nations.



with Abram (17:1-27)• Ishmael will also be blessed as God had

promised• Abraham's and Sarah's son would be

named Isaac (he laughs) because Abraham had laughed that they could have a son at their age

• Abraham carries out the circumcision−Abraham 99−Ishmael 13


• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11)−The Promise of Isaac's Birth (18:1-15)

• Three men arrive to tell Abraham that in a year he will have a son. It refers to two angels and the Lord (Gen. 19:1)

• Sarah laughs• They think they are too old• The reply is "is anything too difficult for

the Lord?“ (18:14)


• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11)−Sodom and Gomorrah (18:16-19:38) 5th

• Lord's purpose for Abraham - Gen. 18:19− All nations will be blessed - final outcome of the promise− Keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and

justice• Abraham discusses fate of Sodom and

Gomorrah with God (18:16-33)−Abraham pleads with the Lord while the two

angels go down to Sodom−Abraham asks the Lord to spare the city if 50

righteous are found and then gets down to just ten

−Shows Abrahams love and concern for people• God will not slay the righteous with the

wicked


• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11)−Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

(19:1-29)• God condemns the great wickedness

(beating on the door for sex, Lot offers his daughters, struck blind by the angels) Morocco example

• Lot tries to get his relatives to leave but only leaves at the urging of the angels with his wife and two daughters.

• Flees to the mountains via Zoar but wife looks back and turned into a pillar of Salt.

• Daughter are concerned about lack of family to marry and have children so get their father drunk. Older daughters son called Moab - father of the Moabites. Younger daughter named Ben-ammi - father of sons of Ammon (Ammonites).

• God remembered Abraham and spared Lot.


• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11)−Abraham and Abimelech (20:1-18)

• Abraham travels to Gerar (southern border of Canaan)

• Abraham and Sarah lie again about her being his wife because of afraid of being killed (she was 90 years old)

−Possible idea: Get his wealth by killing him to get his wife and wealth or marrying into the family

• God appears to Abimelech in a dream and warns him

−Abimelech points out that Abraham lied to him so how was he to know, God tells him he kept him from sinning

• Abimelech gives her back with gifts to right any wrongs

• Abimelech offers them a place to stay in his land

• Abraham called a prophet (20:7)


• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11)−Birth of Isaac (21:1-21)

• Abraham was 100years old and Sarah was 91 (25 years after they left Haran)

• Hagar and her son driven out (Ishmael is 15 years old)

−God tells Abraham not to worry that he will become a great nation

−God protected them in the wilderness by providing water in the north Sinai peninsula.

−Lived in Paran and had a wife from Egypt.


• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11)−Covenant Between Abraham and

Abimelech (21:22-34)• Abimelech saw God was with Abraham so

wanted a covenant with Abraham for himself and his descendants.

−So Abraham would not deal falsely with him.−So Abraham would show kindness to him as he did

by allowing Abraham to reside in his land.• Servants of Abimelech had seized a well dug

by Abraham.−Abimelech did not know of the situation.

• Abraham gave seven ewe lambs as "a witness”, he dug the well.

• Abraham planted a Tamarisk tree there and called on the "name of the Lord, the Everlasting Father,” called Beersheba

−Abraham stayed there for many days


• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11)−Faith of Abraham Manifested (22:1-

19)• God put Abraham's faith to the test• There is a difference between tempting

people to do wrong and testing one's faith• God told Abraham to offer his son as a

sacrifice in the land of Moriah−Mt. Moriah is where Jerusalem would be built;

the temple mount−Three day trip to arrive from Beersheba

• Isaac wonders about the sacrifice−Abraham says God will provide


• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11)−Faith of Abraham Manifested (22:1-

19)• The sacrifice - Abraham's faith in God has

grown over the years since doubting God could provide him with a child

−God stops the sacrifice and provides a ram−God recognizes Abrahams reverence of Him−Abraham call the place God will provide –

Yahweh Jireh (Mount of the Lord)• God reconfirms his blessing to Abraham

because of his faith and obedience (22:15-19) 6th

−Was the covenant conditional or unconditional?

−Multiply his descendants.−Descendants will possess the gates of their

enemies.−Descendants of all nations will be blessed.


• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11)−Rebekah's Linage (22:20-24)

• Traces the linage of Rebekah from Nahor, Abraham's brother, to Rebekah the daughter of Bethuel

• Isaac would later marry Rebekah


• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11)−Sarah Dies and Abraham's Purchase of

a Burial Cave (23:1-20)• Abraham negotiates the purchase of a field

at Machpelah and cave in which to bury Sarah – near Hebron

−Abraham does not own land in that country−He purchases the land from Ephron, the Hittite

(remember the Hittites!)• Abraham purchase it for 400 shekels of

silver• Purchase took place before all who went

into the gate of the city−Early scholars thought that the Hittites did not

exist but later finds revealed these people did exist

• Sarah dies at age 127, thirty-four years after Isaac's birth (23:1)


• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11)−Abraham Sends for a Wife for Isaac

(24:1-67)• Abraham sends his oldest faithful servant

to his kinsmen to find a wife for Isaac−Servant swears an oath to Abraham not to take

Isaac (hand under thigh)−Servant goes with 10 camels and many gifts to

the city of Nahor (Haran)−Servant stops at a well, ask God to show him

which daughter will be for Isaac (the one who gives him a drink & waters camels

• Rebekah (shepherdess) comes out and gives him water and waters his camels

−He gives thanks that God made his journey successful

−Gives Rebekah gold ring and two bracelets

It is about a 500 mile trip from Beersheba to Haran that Eliezer made via Hebron, Jersalem, Jericho to the King’s Highway in Transjordan

Eliezer could have taken the route along the plain of Sharon to Megiddo on to Damascus

The King’s Highway would have taken him across the Anti–Lebanons, down the Orontes to Hama (Hamath), on to Aleppo, across the Euphrates river and northward to the home of Rebekah in the neighborhood of Haran



• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11)−Abraham Sends for a Wife for Isaac

(24:1-67)• The servant discuss the marriage with

Rebekah's family−Laben, Rebekah's brother, and her father,

Bethuel discuss the matter with the servant−They decide after consulting with Rebekah

that she may go with them (at first they said she would follow after ten days).

−Gifts given to Rebekah, her brother, and mother

−Rebekah put the ring on her nose after accepting

• Rebekah sent off with a blessing of many descendants

• Rebekah arrives at Isaac's home in the Negev

−Put a veil over her face−Taken to Isaac's mother's tent

• Isaac married Rebekah at age 40 (Abraham is 140)


• Abraham (11:27 - 25:11)−Death of Abraham (25:1-11)

• Abraham takes another wife and has children through her

• Abraham gave all his possessions to Isaac− To the sons of his concubines he gave gifts while he was

still alive and sent them away to the land of the East• Abraham died at 175 satisfied with life

− Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave at Machpelah with Sarah

− Isaac was 75 when Abraham died• God blessed Isaac who lived at Beer-lahai-

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