Blog entries by Webers_Home

†. 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...

†. 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...

†. Gen 21:13 . . As for the son of the slave-woman, I will make a nation of him, too, for he is your seed. Abraham certainly must have been worried what would become of Ishmael; so God reassured him his boy would be just fine. I think it's significant that God didn't refer to either Hagar or...

†. Gen 21:9 . . Sarah saw the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham playing. At this point, Ishmael was around 17 or 18 years old. (cf. Gen 16:16, Gen 21:5, Gen 21:8) It's hard to tell what kind of sport Ishmael was involved in. Some feel that he, the firstborn son, was picking on...

†. Gen 21:1 . . God took note of Sarah as He had promised, and God did for Sarah as He had spoken. Because God's predictions are sometimes slow and long in coming to pass, people are often inclined to scoff at what He says and lose confidence in His testimony. God told Noah that a flood was...

†. Gen 20:9a . .Then Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him: What have you done to us? What wrong have I done that you should bring so great a guilt upon me and my kingdom? There were no Divine prohibitions at this time against adultery; yet Abimelech's ancient culture believed it to be...

†. Gen 20:4b . . He said: O Lord, will You slay people even though innocent? Right about now ol' Ab is scared to death; so he mounts a feverish defense to save his hide. This man is highly motivated, and by no means ignorant of Abraham's god. He knows exactly who He is; and no doubt informed of...

†. Gen 20:1a . . Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negeb and settled between Kadesh and Shur. In Moses' day, Kadesh was a jumping off point just prior to crossing over Wadi Araba into the region of Moab. †. Num 20:14-16 . . From Kadesh, Moses sent messengers to the king of...

†. Gen 19:31 . . And the older one said to the younger: Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to consort with us in the way of all the world. It's doubtful the girls meant the whole planet was void of men; probably just the region where their cave was. It was isolated and lonely...

†. Gen 19:27-28 . . Next morning, Abraham hurried to the place where he had stood before the Lord, and, looking down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the Plain, he saw the smoke of the land rising like the smoke of a kiln. Poor guy. Now he began the very same vigil that so many...

†. Gen 19:17 . .When they had brought them outside, one said: Flee for your life! Do not look behind you, nor stop anywhere in The Plain; flee to the hills, lest you be swept away. The messengers won't be going along. They're to stay behind to supervise the holocaust. Up till now, it appeared...

†. Gen 19:14a . . So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, Sons-in-law and daughters are plural. So Lot had at least two more daughters living outside the home with husbands. They will stay behind; and burn to death; and so will Lot's grandchildren; if any...

†. Gen 19:5a . . And they shouted to Lot and said to him: Where are the men who came to you tonight? Everyone was bellowing and clamoring; like impatient fans at wrestling matches, cage fights, and Roman coliseums; demanding their pound of flesh and pools of blood. †. Gen 19:5b . . Bring them...

†. Gen 19:1a . .The two angels arrived in Sodom The word for "angels" is from mal'ak (mal-awk') from a root meaning to dispatch as a deputy; viz: a messenger; specifically of God, i.e. an angel and/or a prophet, priest or teacher. Mal'ak doesn't eo ipso indicate a celestial being; because the...

†. Gen 18:23a . . Abraham came forward Abraham "came forward" in that he became somewhat assertive in this next scene. He was sort of like a guardian to the Sodomites, in spite of their decadence. That is amazing; yet, is so typical of the really holy men in the Bible to intercede for people...

†. Gen 18:21a . . I will go down to see whether they have acted altogether according to the outcry that has reached Me; The word for "outcry" is from tsa'aqah (tsah-ak-aw') which means: a shriek. The same word was in chapter 4 to describe the cry of Abel's blood from the ground and also in...