the place name is used to imply somewhere a great distance away. Since ancient times, attempts have been made to locate Tarshish from biblical data. The major resources for this are a series of unrelated biblical texts: Bereshit / Genesis 10:4, 1 Kings 10:22, 22:48, Isaiah 2:16, 23:...
PharaohThothmose I broke the Middle Kingdom promise that Egypt honor the descendants of Jacob-Israel. Pharaoh meant to work them to death and stop them from breeding. He “ordered any newborn Israelite male killed at birth.” In 1513 BCE, to save their newborn, a couple descended from Jac...
back to Shem. It would therefore also include the descendants of Abraham’s other sons, including Ishmael, the father of the Arabs, the majority of whom are Muslims today.
Lets go back and see if we can find any context that calls the descendants of Ishmael, or the descendants of the Abraham's other sons "brethren" to the Israelites.Genesis 25:1-4 lists some of Abraham's sons. Note in verse 5 that Isaac was the main inheritor. His sons listed here ...
“And every male among you who is eight days old shall be circumcised throughout your generations, a servant who is born in the house or who is bought with money from any foreigner, who is not of your descendants.NASB 1977 “And every male among you who is eight days old shall be ...
That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are considered as seed. Amplified Bible That is, it is not the children of the body [Abraham’s natural descendants] who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who ar...
Romans 9:6 All of Abraham’s physical descendants are not partakers of God’s promises made to him, as seen even in the very first case, Isaac and Ishmael. Romans 9:4-6 New International Version 4 the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the...
500 years or so is an undeniable proof of the fact that the heirs to the tradition of sacrifice made by the Prophet Abraham have been the descendants of the Prophet Ishmael and not of the Prophet Isaac. There has never been any such tradition among the descendants of the Prophet Isaac ...
10The angel added, "I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count." 11The angel of the LORD also said to her: "You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard of your misery. 12He will be a ...
Nor is it only descendants of Abraham who receive God’s special care and attention,“Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith theLord. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from...