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†. 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 15:15a . . 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 fall...

†. 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 that just goes to show that sometimes the Bible is...

†. 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 engineered...

†. Gen 14:17 . .When he returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh, which is the Valley of the King. The location of the Shaveh Valley is a total mystery; this being the only place in the entire Old Testament where...

†. Gen 14:13c . . who was dwelling at the terebinths of Mamre the Amorite, kinsman of Eshkol and Aner, these being Abram's allies. Abram had become a shrewd sheik. The best way to survive on the frontier is to team up-- especially with someone that all the others know and fear. That way most...

†. Gen 14:4b . . and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. El Ched wouldn't get wind of that right away of course. There was no email, no radio, no sat-com, no land line, no snail mail, no cells, nor television, nor telegraph, nor aircraft, nor motorized conveyances in that day so it would take...

†. 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" is...

†. 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 13:13 . . Now the inhabitants of Sodom were very wicked sinners against the Lord. The precise location of ancient Sodom is uncertain. Some feel it was sited at the south end of the Dead Sea; but it's really hard to know for sure. According to Gen 14:1-3, the communities of Sodom...

†. Gen 13:1-2 . . From Egypt, Abram went up into the Negeb, with his wife and all that he possessed, together with Lot. Now Abram was very rich in cattle, silver, and gold. The word for "rich" is from kabad (kaw-bad') which means: to be heavy, i.e. in either a bad sense (burdensome, severe...

†. Gen 12:13 . . I beseech you; say that you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that I may remain alive thanks to you. Abraham was shrewd. He was not only concerned about saving his skin, but also about taking advantage of his being Sarai's kin; and actually that...

†. Gen 12:7c-8 . . And he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him. From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and he built there an altar to the Lord and invoked the Lord by name. Eusebius...

†. Gen 12:3c . . And all the families of the earth shall bless themselves by you. Now we see coming into play the most important part of God's plan for Abram. At the moment God made that promise, every other family on the earth was just about totally involved in paganism. Even Terah, Abram's...