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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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 7

Genesis 8:1  

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.  (see Genesis 8:1-14)

 

Genesis 8:15-17  

    Then God said to Noah, "Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you--the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground--so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it."  (see Genesis 8:15-22) 

 

Genesis 9:1  

    Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth."  

(see Genesis 9:1-3)

 

Genesis 9:6  

    "Whoever sheds human blood,

        by humans shall their blood be shed;

    for in the image of God

        has God made mankind."  (see Genesis 9:4-7)

 

Genesis 9:8-11  

    Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: "I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you--the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you--every living creature on earth. I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth." 

 

Genesis 9:12-13  

    And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and earth."

 

Genesis 9:16  

"Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."  (see Genesis 9:8-17)

 

Genesis 9:26-27  

    He also said,

    "Praise be to the LORD, the God of Shem!

        May Canaan be the slave of Shem.

    May God extend Japheth's territory;

        may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,

    and may Canaan be the slave Japheth."  

    (see Genesis 9:18-29)

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 6

Genesis 6:1-4 

    When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the Sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years."

    The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the Sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.  (see Genesis 6:1-8)

 

Genesis 6:8-13  

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

    This is the account of Noah and his family.

    Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

    Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth."  (see Genesis 6:8-21)

 

Genesis 6:22-7:1  

    Noah did everything just as God commanded him. 

    The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation."

 

Genesis 7:8-9  

Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along along the ground, male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.

 

Genesis 7:16  

The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.  (see all Genesis 7) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 5

Genesis 3:21-24  

    The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

 

Genesis 4:25-26  

    Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, "God has granted me another child in the place of Abel, since Cain killed him." Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh.

    At that time people began to call on the name of the LORD.  (see all Genesis 4)

 

Genesis 5:1-2  

    This is the written account of Adam's family line.

    When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them "Mankind" when they were created.

 

Genesis 5:21-24  

    When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether Enoch lived a total of 365 years. Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.  (see all Genesis 5) 

  

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