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GENESIS – LESSON NINE
I. ABRAM AND GOD’S COVENANT (Gen. 14-
A. Abram and his 318 men save Lot after four kings from the Northeast successfully war against five rebellious kings from the southern plains of the Jordan Valley (14:1-
B. The King of Sodom and Melchizedek -
1. Melchizedek blesses Abram –Abram gives Melchizedek a tenth of all the spoils of war.
2. Abram refuses to keep the retrieved goods belonging to Sodom, except the portion his men had eaten and earned.
C. God makes a covenant with Abram regarding his seed and the land that they will inherit. (15:1-
1. God promises Abram in a vision that Eliezer, born in Abram’s house, will not be Abram’s heir.
2. God promises Abram that his seed will be numberless as the stars.
a. Abram believes God and it is reckoned unto him for righteousness.
3. God promises Abram that his seed will inherit the land.
a. Abram asks for confirmation.
b. God commands Abram to prepare a specific sacrifice.
c. God promises Abram that his seed will be sojourners in a land not theirs for four hundred years – then will they come forth with great substance.
d. God confirms promise by sending flaming torch that passes through the sacrificial pieces.
e. The land given to Abram’s seed to include land from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates River, occupied by the Kenite, Kenizzite, Hittite, Perizzite Rephaim, Amorite, Canaanite, Girgashite and the Jebusite.
D. Sarai gives her handmaid Hagar to Abram as wife because she remains childless after ten years in the land of Canaan (16:1-
1. Conflict between Sarai and Hagar who has conceived a child by Abram-
2. Through Angel, God tells Hagar at a fountain in the wilderness to return to Sarai – Hagar’s seed will be greatly multiplied.
3. Hagar gives birth to Ishmael when Abram is 86 years old.
E. God renews covenant with Abram – commanding circumcision as a token of the covenant (17:1-
1. Abram’s name changed to Abraham – “father of a multitude”.
2. Sarai’s name changed to Sarah – “Princess”
3. God promises Abraham that Sarah will bear him a son in their old age -
4. Abraham circumcises himself and all the males of his household.
QUESTIONS:
1. From what lands in the Northeast did the four kings come to engage in war with the kings close to Abram?
2. Why did they come to war?
3. Where did they fight the five kings?
4. Why did Abram fight Chedorlaomer?
5. Why did Abram not keep the goods offered by the king of Sodom?
6. Melchizedek was king over what city?
7. Melchizedek was also priest of ________________________________ .
8. Why is Melchizedek important in understanding the establishment of the New Covenant?
9. Why does Abram have trouble in understanding that God will reward him?
10. How does God describe the seed that will come from Abram?
11. What response did Abraham have to this promise regarding his seed? Why should this response to God’s promise be important to us?
12. God promised Abram’s seed the land from the _____________ of ________ to the Great river ________________________.
13. What all does God say would come first before Abram’s seed would posses the promised land?
14. How did God confirm to Abram that his seed would receive the land of promise?
15. Why was there conflict between Sarai and her Egyptian handmaid, Hagar?
16. Describe the conflict:
(a). From Sarai’s point of view:
(b). From Hagar’s point of view:
17. How is “the God who hears” a reality in Hagar’s life?
18. God comforted Hagar by endorsing her decision to flee from Sarai. (T) (F)
19. What religion today traces its leader’s heritage back to Ishmael?
20. What two promises of God were part of the covenant of which circumcision was a Token?
21. In what since is the covenant with Abraham “everlasting”?
22. Why is Abram’s name changed to Abraham? Why is Sarai’s name changed to Sarah?
23. Why did Abraham laugh before Jehovah?
24. What all does Abraham manifest that would make him a father of all?
GENESIS – LESSON TEN
I. GOD COMMUNES WITH ABRAHAM AND DESTROYS SODOM AND THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN (Chapters 18-
A. Three Angels of Jehovah appear to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre (18:1-
1. Abraham provides food for the men sent from Jehovah (v.1-
2. Sarah laughs after overhearing the angels say she shall have son (v. 9-
3. Men rise to go toward Sodom – God reveals to Abraham his plans to confirm the truth of the cries that have come to Him from Sodom (v. 16-
B. Abraham pleads with God to save Sodom (v.22-
C. Lot at the gate of Sodom meets two angels – men of the city want to sexually know them (19:1-
D. Angels earnestly appeal to Lot and his family to escape from the city of Sodom – Lot allowed to go to Zoar (19:12-
E. God totally destroys cities of the plain with brimstone and fire from heaven (19:23-
1. Lots wife turned to pillar of salt as she looks longingly back at the city.
2. Abraham looks towards cites of plain and sees the smoke come up like the smoke of the furnace.
3. God remembers Abraham by sparing Lot.
F. Lot leaves Zoar for the mountains with his two daughters (19:30-
1. Firstborn daughter lies with drunken Lot and conceives son – Moab – the father of the Moabites.
2. Younger daughter lies with drunken Lot and conceives son – Benammi – the father of the children of Ammon.
G. Abraham sojourns in Gerar and lets it be known to Abimelech that Sarah is his sister (20:1-
1. God troubles righteous Abimelech in a dream – not to take Sarah for she is a man’s wife.
2. Abimelech commanded to restore Sarah to Abraham – he and all his will die if he refuses.
H. Abimelech and Abraham converse over the incident of taking Sarah (20:8-
1. Abimelech wants to know what sin he has done to Abraham for a great sin to be brought on him and his kingdom.
2. Abraham explains that for his safety he had encouraged his half sister Sarah to be known as his sister instead of his wife.
I. Abimelech restores Sarah to Abraham with gifts – Abraham prays for Abimelech, his wife and maid-
QUESTIONS:
1. In what way does Jehovah “appear” to Abraham at the oaks of Mamre?
2. Describe the relationship Abraham had with his wife Sarah regarding headship in their home.
3. What was going through Sarah’s mind to make her laugh when overhearing the messengers talk to Abraham?
4. How did Jehovah react to Sarah’s laughing.
5. What emotion can make us lie? Do our denials change the truth before God?
6. How does God see a remnant from Abraham being sustained in order for God to fulfill His promises to Abraham?
7. Describe the “cry” that had come up to God from Sodom and Gomorrah.
8. What “right” did Abraham appeal to God about concerning the fate of Sodom?
9. God was willing to save Sodom if there were ___________ _______________ people found in the city.
10. What lessons do you learn from Abraham that will help you in your prayers to God?
11. Where is Lot when he meets with the two angels?
12. What did the men of the city want to “know” the two men messengers?
13. How did the men of the city regard Lot?
14. What did the angels do the men of the city?
15. What lesson do you learn concerning “influence” when noticing Lot’s family not being enthusiastic over leaving Sodom?
16. What is the origin of the Moabites and the Ammonites?
17. Is Abraham justified in saying that Sarah was his sister?
18. Why did Abimelech need Abraham to pray for him?
19. Why did Abimelech give 1,000 pieces of silver to Abraham?