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†. Gen 24:16d . . She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and
came up.
The "spring" in this case was a small pool of water fed by an aquifer, which
is different than an artesian well. Artesians gush, while aquifers seep.
Some of the shafts of ancient man-made wells in the that part of the...
Sitting in you chair, Glasses on, studying the world, You’re the armchair expert. Let the fanfare and flags unfurl. - Yeah, you’re the expert, you sitting there, You know it all, the judge of everything, You been there, you’ve been everywhere. Tried everyone’s shoes, then thrown ‘em in the bin...
†. Gen 24:11 . . He made the camels kneel down by the well outside
the city, at evening time, the time when women come out to draw
water.
"evening time" is from an ambiguous word that indicates any time after high
noon when the sun is descending towards sunset as opposed to "morning"
which can...
You wanted the world, the fastest and the best. The largest, richest house and all the rest. You wanted the crowds and their butter lips. One premiership is only the iceberg’s tip. Though our beauty tis only skin deep, We try our absolute hardest to keep. We forget the very reason we are here...
†. Gen 24:3c-4 . . that you will not take a wife for my son from the
daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell, but will go to the
land of my birth and get a wife for my son Isaac.
The words "land of my birth" can also mean "to my country and to my
relatives." That is exactly how the...
†. Gen 24:1a . . Abraham was now old, advanced in years,
Abraham was 100 when Isaac was born (Gen 21:25). The lad was 40 when
he married Rebecca (Gen 25:20). So that makes Abraham 140 at this point
in the record. But although Abraham was worn; he wasn't worn out.
Abraham still had plenty of...
The huge steel walls were rising above her. A ring of white surrounded her, Little isles of white dotted the plain about her: barren patches of desolation with no living thing in sight. Her reflection warped, caving up across her in the steel with alien-life features. Stuck inside...
Sarah's Grave
In 1981, Dr. Seev Jevin, Director of the Israel Antiquities Authority, forced
himself through a narrow opening in the underground grave chamber of the
Machpela cave, where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were believed to be buried.
He did this under strict observation by the Islamic...
†. Gen 23:10b-11 . . saying: No, my lord, hear me: I give you the
field and I give you the cave that is in it; I give it to you in the
presence of my people. Bury your dead.
Ephron's generosity was no doubt sincere, but merely one more formality
towards closing a deal on the property. Not...
I’m a dark seeker, creature of the night.
I scream and run when exposed to light.
Here, cloaked in darkness, you cannot see
The filth and the sores that plague me.
Yeah, I know that they’re killing me inside
But I don’t want others to see them so I run and hide.
Though the remedy is always...
†. Gen 23:1-2a . . Sarah's lifetime-- the span of Sarah's life --came to
one hundred and twenty-seven years. Sarah died in Kiriath-arba--
now Hebron --in the land of Canaan;
This is the only woman in the entire Tanakh for whom an age is given at the
time of her death. Isaac was 37 at this...
†. Gen 22:12a . . And he said: Do not raise your hand against the lad,
or do anything to him.
There are some who feel that the angel stopped Abraham at this point
because he misunderstood the instructions God gave to him back in verse 2;
which were: "Take your son, your favored one, Isaac, whom...
†. Gen 22:9b . . Abraham built an altar there; he laid out the wood;
This was a place where, apparently, Abraham had never worshipped before
because he had to build an altar.
Did the lad perhaps begin to feel dread and fear at this point just like Jesus
felt on the night he was arrested?
†...
†. Gen 22:6b-7 . . He himself took the firestone and the knife; and
the two walked off together. Then Isaac said to his father Abraham:
Father! And he answered: Yes, my son. And he said: Here are the
firestone and the wood; but where is the sheep for the burnt
offering?
Oops! That's kind of...
†. Gen 22:2d . . on one of the heights that I will point out to you.
Precisely where the land of Moriah was, and the specific height God chose,
is impossible to tell for sure. Abraham knew where the land was but he
wouldn't know the exact spot until he got there. It's just as well to keep it a...
.
Rabbis are quite divided as to the true meaning of Gen 22:2. Some
feel Abraham was supposed to kill Isaac, and some feel he wasn't. There are
some who feel that the angel stopped Abraham at this point because he was
making a big mistake-- that Abraham misunderstood the instructions God
gave to...
†. Gen 22:1a . . Some time afterward, God put Abraham to the test.
This particular section of Scripture deals with an ancient incident known in
sacred Jewish literature as The Akedah (the binding of Isaac). The Akedah
portrays the very first human sacrifice ever performed in the Bible by...
†. Gen 21:22a . . At that time
While Hagar and Ishmael were busy setting up a new life for themselves, a
seemingly trivial event occurred in Abraham's life. I don't have any idea why
Genesis records this incident. It doesn't seem to mean anything.
†. Gen 21:22b . . Abimelech
It is very...
Hey everyone, here’s my pitiful attempt at writing some humour.
Just enjoyed my days off. This time I had Sunday and Monday off. Yes, now do any of you know about Mondanitis? Because I suffer from it big time! And that’s my topic. I am to prove that I suffer from Mondanitis.
Mondanitis tends...
†. Gen 21:17a . . God heard the cry of the boy,
I don't think Ishmael, at near eighteen, was bawling his eyes out like a little girl. Rather; his "cry"
was a plea for help. Exactly what he said is unknown. But God heard him and responded. I
strongly suspect that in those seventeen or so years...