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Covenant with Abram – Genesis 15:7-21
Wikipedia has a decent article on Biblical covenant. There are several covenants God makes with His people, the covenant with Noah never to destroy the earth again by a flood, the covenant with Abraham,
Continue reading...Counted as Righteousness – Genesis 15:1-6
It is hard to overstate how important the statement of Genesis 15:6 has been in the history of the Christian faith. It is the statement Paul appeals to in his letter to the Romans to defend his view
Continue reading...Abram and Melchizedek – Genesis 14:17-24
This historical figure of Melchizedek (Hebrew for ‘my king is righteous’, or as some prefer, ‘king of righteousness’) was both a priest of El Elyon (El I will take nothing but
Continue reading...Abram Rescues Lot – Genesis 14:1-16
Much of this narrative takes place around the Dead Sea. The NIV Study Bible notes: “Hebrew “Salt Sea.” Its water contains an approximately five times greater concentration of chloride and
Continue reading...Separation of Abram and Lot – Genesis 13
Wikipedia describes a nomad as “a member of a community without fixed habitation who regularly moves to and from the same areas. Such groups include hunter-gatherers, pastoral nomads (owning livestock),
Continue reading...Abram’s Lie – Genesis 12:10-20
Both Abram and the Egyptians thought Sarai, Abram’s wife, was beautiful. The Bible describes beautiful people in several places: Isaac’s wife Rebekah (Genesis 24:16), Jacob’s wife Rachel
Continue reading...Tour of the Land – Genesis 12:4-9
GotQuestions.org responds to the question of what an altar is: “An altar always represented a place of consecration. Before God gave His Law to Moses, men made altars wherever they were out of
Continue reading...The Promise Expanded – Genesis 12:1-3
In Genesis 3:15 Yahweh promises that a seed or offspring of the woman will strike the head of the serpent and restore the kingdom of God on earth. Every child born could be the one who fulfills this
Continue reading...The Line of Abram – Genesis 11:10-32
This is the line of Shem, which leads to Abram. Shem’s line is given prominence over his brothers, Ham and Japheth, and we will see this prominence worked out as Israel overcomes the Canaanites
Continue reading...Babel – Genesis 11:1-9
Walton, in his commentary, speaks to the issue of whether there is any other witness to the city with the tower: If we must pick a city for the project based on Mesopotamian traditions and literature,
Continue reading...Table of Nations – Genesis 10
GotQuestions.org deals with the charge that this table of nations is not accurate: The accuracy of the Table has been called into question by the fact that some of the relationships described do not
Continue reading...Curse on Canaan – Genesis 9:18-29
Attempts have been made to excuse Noah’s drunkenness. Some have suggested that the new conditions of the earth (the absence of the water canopy that some have untenably suggested protected earth
Continue reading...Noahic Covenant – Genesis 9:1-17
John Walton, in his commentary on Genesis, writes, about capital punishment as required in Genesis 9: “The laws that require due process are predicated on the belief that though society’s response
Continue reading...The Waters Receded – Genesis 8
The NIV Study Bible notes a series of parallels between the events of chs. 8–9 and those of ch. 1 in their literary order: Compare 8:2 with 1:7; 8:5 with 1:9; 8:7 with 1:20; 8:17 with 1:25; 9:1 with
Continue reading...Fountains and Windows – Genesis 7
The Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary of the Old Testament describes the contrast between other ancient accounts of the flood and the Biblical account: In the biblical flood story,
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