GOD in the Old Testament - Part 14

Genesis 26:23-25 

    From there he went up to Beersheba. That night the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham."

    Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.   (see all Genesis 26)

 

Genesis 27:19-23  

    Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing."

    Isaac asked his son, "How did you find it so quickly, my son?"

    "The LORD your God gave me success," he replied.

    Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not." 

    Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau." He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he proceeded to bless him. 

 

Genesis 27:26-29  

Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come here, my son, and kiss me." 

    So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said,

    "Ah, the smell of my son

        is like the smell of a field

        that the LORD has blessed.

    May God give you heaven's dew

        and earth's richness--

        an abundance of grain and new wine.

    May nations serve you

        and peoples bow down to you.

    Be lord over your brothers,

        and may the sons of your mother bow down to you.

    May those who curse you be cursed

        and those who bless you be blessed."

        (see all Genesis 26-27) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 13

Genesis 24:1-4 

    Abraham was now very old, and the LORD had blessed him in every way. He said to the senior servant in his household, the one in charge of all he had, "Put your hand under my thigh. I want you to swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living, but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac."

 

Genesis 24:6-7  

    "Make sure that you do not take my son back there," Abraham said. "The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me out of my father's household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, 'To your offspring I will give this land'--he will send an angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there." 

 

Genesis 24:12-14  

    Then he prayed, "LORD, God of my master Abraham, make me successful today, and show kindness to my master Abraham. See, I am standing beside this spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water. May it be that when I say to a young woman, 'Please let down your jar that I may have a drink,' and she says, "Drink, and I'll water your camels too'--let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master." 

 

Genesis 24:26-27  

    Then the man bowed down and worshiped the LORD, saying, "Praise be to the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his kindness and faithfulness to my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on a journey to the house of my master's relatives."

 

Genesis 24:42  

    "When I came to the spring today, I said, 'LORD, God of my master Abraham, if you will, please grant success to the journey on which I have come."  

 

Genesis 24:47-48  

    "I asked her, 'Whose daughter are you?'

    "She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milkah bore to him.'

    "Then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her arms; and I bowed down and worshiped the LORD. I praised the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right road to get the granddaughter of my master's brother for his son."  (see all Genesis 24) 

 

Genesis 25:11  

After Abraham's death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi.  (see all Genesis 25)   

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 12

Genesis 21:22-24 

    At that time Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything you do. Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you."

    Abraham said, "I swear it."

 

Genesis 21:31-34  

    So that place was called Beersheba, because the two men swore an oath there.

    After the treaty had been made at Beersheba, Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines. Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Eternal God. And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for a long time.  (see Genesis 21:22-34)

 

Genesis 22:1-3  

    Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!"

    "Here I am," he replied.

    Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, whom you love--Isaac--and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on the mountain I will show you." 

    Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. 

 

Genesis 22:8-12  

    Abraham answered, "God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." And the two of them went on together.

    When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!"

    "Here I am," he replied.

    "Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."  

(see all Genesis 22-23) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 11

Genesis 21:1-7 

    Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. 

    Sarah said, "God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me." And she added, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age." 

 

Genesis 21:11-13  

    The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son. (see verses 8-10) But God said to him, "Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to what Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned. I will make the son of the slave into a nation also, because he is your offspring." 

 

Genesis 21:17-21  

    God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there. Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation." 

    Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

    God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer. While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.  

(see Genesis 21:1-21) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 10

Genesis 20:1-7 

    Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar, and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, "She is my sister." Then Abimelek king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.

    But God came to Abimelek in a dream one night and said to him, "You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman."

    Now Abimelek had not gone near her, so he said, "Lord, will you destroy an innocent nation? Did he not say to me, 'She is my sister,' and didn't she also say, 'He is my brother'? I have done this with a clear conscience and clean hands."

    Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her. Now return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, you may be sure that you and all who belong to you will die."

 

Genesis 20:11-13  

And Abimelek asked Abraham, "What was your reason for doing this?" 

    Abraham replied, "I said to myself, 'There is surely no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.' Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife. And when God had me wander from my father's household, I said to her, 'This is how you can show your love for me: Everywhere we go, say of me, "He is my brother." ' " 

 

Genesis 20:17-18  

    Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelek, his wife and his female slaves so they could have children again, for the LORD had kept all the women in Abimelek's household from conceiving because of Abraham's wife Sarah.  (see all Genesis 20) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 9

Genesis 17:7-9

"I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God."

    Then God said to Abraham, "As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come."  (see Genesis 17:7-14) 

 

Genesis 17:15-16  

    God also said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."

 

Genesis 17:18-23  

And Abraham said to God, "If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!"

    Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year." When he had finished speaking to Abraham, God went up from him.

    On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him.  (see Genesis 17:18-27)

 

Genesis 19:27-29  

    Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD. He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace. 

    So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.  (see all Genesis 18-29)  

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 8

Genesis 14:18-20 

    Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, and he blessed Abram saying,

    "Blessed be Abram by God Most High,

        Creator of heaven and earth.

    And praise be to God Most High,

        who delivered your enemies into your hands."

Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

 

Genesis 14:21-23  

    The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself."

     But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "With raised hand I have sworn an oath to the LORD, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, 'I made Abram rich'.  

(see all Genesis 14)

 

Genesis 16:13-16  

    She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "I have now seen the One who sees me." That is why the well is called Beer Lahai Roi; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.

    So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.  (see all Genesis 16)

 

Genesis 17:1-5  

    When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless. Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers."

    Abram fell face down, and God said to him, "As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations."  (see Genesis 17:1-6) 

  

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