Abraham was called both a Hebrew (14:13) and an Aramean (Deuteronomy 26:5; cf. 25:20; 28:5; 31:20, 24). He was born in Ur and moved to Haran with his father Terah. At God's call, he traveled to Canaan and lived for a while in various localities, in particular: Shechem,...
Abraham returned to Beer-sheba, and was sojourning there when Sarah died at Kirjatharba (also called Hebron and Mamre), at the age of one hundred and twenty-seven (ib. xxiii. 1, 2). Abraham went to Mamre and bought the cave of Machpelah as a burial-place; and there he buried ...
But the Hebrew is, For I have known him in order that he may command his sons, &c. It gives God foreknowledge of the purpose for which He had called Abraham as the reason for thus revealing to him the method of the Divine justice. And this purpose was, that from Abraham should ...
Abraham returned to Beer-sheba, and was sojourning there when Sarah died at Kirjatharba (also called Hebron and Mamre), at the age of one hundred and twenty-seven (ib. xxiii. 1, 2). Abraham went to Mamre and bought the cave of Machpelah as a burial-place; and there he buried ...
Abraham was a flawed man who followed a perfect God. What changed him was a constant belief that this God who spoke to him would keep his amazing promises. And God did.Abraham is rightly called "the father of faith," for he blazed the trail for us. You and I walk that same trail ...
11 But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven,“Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. 12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from ...
I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.[f])31 Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”32 “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”33 But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling hi...
Abraham was the patriarch of the Hebrew people. God inception of his covenant, and promise, with Abraham, and God develops and continuing relationship with the Israelites through Abraham’s descendants. “He was 75 when God called him to leave his home, 86 when his first son Ishmael was ...
We are called to trust in His timing and power.Divine TimingGod's plans often defy human logic and timing. We should remain patient and hopeful, knowing that God's timing is perfect.Human Doubt and Divine AssuranceDoubt is a natural human response, but God provides assurance and evidence of...
God had called him to go to Canaan (12:1), but Abraham didn't really know where he was going. He was pointed to Canaan, a land he had heard about, but he was going "to the land I will show you" (Acts 7:3). The writer of Hebrews puts it this way: ...