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- †. Gen 16:4 . . He cohabited with Hagar and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress became lower in her esteem. Before this incident, Hagar knew her place and was humble and self effacing around Sarai, but afterwards she regarded her mistress as somewhat less of a...

- †. Gen 16:1 . . Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar. It's entirely possible that Abram purchased Ms. Hagar while they were all down in Egypt during the famine back in chapter 12. The word for "maidservant" is shiphchah...

- †. Gen 15:18b . . saying: To your offspring I assign this land, The word for "offspring" is zera' (zeh'-rah) which means: seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, and progeny. Zera' is one of those words that is both plural and singular-- like the words sheep and fish. One sheep is a...

- †. Gen 15:15a . . As for you, Abram must have begun to wonder if maybe he too was in danger of oppression and slavery. †. Gen 15:15b . .You shall go to your fathers in peace; Have you ever wondered how you'll die-- by accident, poison, in a violent mugging, disease, cancer, car wreck, a...

- †. Matt 8:23-25 . . And when He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him. And behold, there arose a great storm in the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves; but He Himself was asleep. And they came to him, and awoke him, saying: Save us, Lord; we are perishing! The koiné...

- †. Gen 15:11 . . Birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. The only responsibility that Abram had in this ritual was to set it up. So it was his job to protect the carcasses from damage and keep the scene clear of interference from people and critters who had no...

- †. Gen 15:7a . .Then He said to him: I am The Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans God here identifies Himself as yhvh. That may seem unimportant but there are those who claim Abram was unaware of that name because of Ex 6:3. But it just goes to show you that sometimes the Bible...

- †. Gen 15:1a . . Some time later, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision. This is the very first record of a vision in the Bible. The Hebrew word is machazeh (makh-az-eh') and it appears in only four places in the entire Old Testament; which is pretty amazing considering the volume of...

- †. Gen 14:20b . . And [Abram] gave him a tenth of everything. According to Heb 7:1-4, this particular tenth regarded only the recent spoils of war; not of all Abram's estate in its entirety. So then, tenths should be reserved for times when you know in your heart that it was God who...

- †. Gen 14:18a . . And King Melchizedek of Salem brought out bread and wine; Melchizedek's name is Malkiy-Tsedeq (mal-kee-tseh'-dek) which means: king of right or possibly just simply righteous king; in contrast to the wickedness which was the stock in trade of Bera, king of Sodom. I tend to...

- Should all definitions of a Christian be allowed to stand, or should there be just one? Webster's defines a Christian as somebody who professes belief in the teachings of Jesus Christ. According to that definition; it isn't necessary to actually believe in Christ's teachings in order...

- †. Gen 14:15b . . and he pursued them as far as Hobah, Unfortunately this is the only place in the entire Old Testament where Hobah is mentioned; and archaeologists have had no luck so far in discovering its exact location. †. Gen 14:15c . .which is north of Damascus. Many, many years...

- †. Gen 14:13a . . A refugee brought the news to Abram It was a trek from Sodom to Abram's camp. He was way up in Mamre; and a goodly portion of it uphill-- very uphill. At any rate, news of Sodom's overthrow meant that Lot was captured; or maybe even dead. One way or the other, Abram had to...

- †. Gen 14:5-7 . . In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim at Ashteroth karnaim, the Zuzim at Ham, the Emim at Shaveh-kiriathaim, and the Horites in their hill country of Seir as far as El-paran, which is by the wilderness. . . .On...

- †. Gen 14:4a . .Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, Apparently El Ched was the instigator behind the extortion scheme holding Sodom and its neighbors economically hostage. The other kings who came along with him to Canaan were just reinforcements to back his play. You have to wonder how...

- †. Gen 3:1a . . Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. Probably no other creature in the Bible provokes so much skepticism as the Serpent. It just smacks of mythology. But this particular serpent was no ordinary reptile. It was indeed a...

- †. Gen 14:1 . . Now, when King Amraphel of Shinar, King Arioch of Ellasar, King Chedorlaomer of Elam, and King Tidal of nations. Shinar was the whole of Babylonia; Ellasar was the leading tribe in its southern part; and Elam was the original kingdom of Persia. The Hebrew word for "nations"...

- †. Gen 13:18a . . And Abram moved his tent, and came to dwell at the terebinths of Mamre, which are in Hebron; Hebron (Hevron) itself is today a city of over 70,000 people located about 20 miles south of Jerusalem at an elevation of 3,050 feet above sea level. Hebron is sacred in Jewish...

- †. Gen 13:14-15 . . And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had parted from him: Raise your eyes and look out from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west, for I give all the land that you see to you and your offspring forever. Oh the irony of it! If Lot went off only to...

- †. Gen 13:12a . . Abram remained in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the cities of the Plain, Cities in that day didn't in any way resemble the huge sprawling metropolises of the present. We would no doubt regard them as little more than fortified hamlets. Some of the cities of the...