One of the core tenets of the Jewish faith is that the Hebrews are the "chosen people of God" following God's covenants with Abraham. Christians also trace their faith back to Abraham through Isaac, via Jesus and his original followers, who were Jewish. Abraham's descendant Midian is ...
1. A Philistine king of Gerar . . . Gen. 20:1–18Makes treaty with... Abraham Abraham—the father of a multitude A. Ancestry and family:Descendant of Shem . . . 1 Chr. 1:24–27... Adah Adah—ornament 1. One of Lamech’s wives . . . Gen. 4:19 2. One of E...
(1 Kings 4:20; Hebrews 11:12) Moreover, some 1,971 years after Abraham left Haran, a descendant of his, Jesus, was baptized in water by John the Baptizer and then in holy spirit by Jehovah himself to become the Messiah, Abraham’s Seed in the complete, spiritual sense. 列王纪上...
Israelite, descendant of the Hebrewpatriarch Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel after an all-night fight at Penuel near the stream of Jabbok (Genesis 32:28). What does God promise Noah? God's covenant with Noah was a commitment to maintain the inherent relationship between Creator and c...
the learned medieval Jewish sage Nachmanides stated that Abraham “occupied himself with its study and the reason for its commandments and its secrets.”[22]One thinks immediately of Abraham’s descendant Nephi, whose soul delighted in the scriptures and whose heart pondered them continually (2 ...
17 His other daughter Abigail married Jether, a descendant of Ishmael, and they had a son named Amasa. The Descendants of Hezron 18 Hezron's son Caleb married Azubah and had a daughter named Jerioth. She had[c] three sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. 19 After the death of Azubah...
Esau (Romans 9:12, 13). In order to qualify, therefore, for the full promise of God to Israel, art individual had to be, first, of the natural seed of Abraham, i.e., a descendant of Jacob, and, second, one who trusted in God, thereby qualifying as belonging to the spiritual ...
17 His other daughter Abigail married Jether, a descendant of Ishmael, and they had a son named Amasa. The Descendants of Hezron 18 Hezron's son Caleb married Azubah and had a daughter named Jerioth. She had[c] three sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. 19 After the death of Azubah...