David Journal

Tag: Genesis

  • Israel part 2

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    Why is it that the sons if Jacob chose to seek vengeance rather than seeking reparation like their father? I hadn’t realized that Isaac was still around by the time Benjamin was born. That shouldn’t be so appraising since he lived for nearly 200 years.

  • Israel part 1

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    Jacob received the name of Israel right before he met Esau again after twenty years of living and serving in the household of Laban. Jacob expected a fight when he met Esau but got an embrace instead. I notice a pattern that Jacob learned not to be very trusting of people. He left Laban without…

  • Jacob part 2

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    Jacob demonstrates perseverance while Laban took advantage of him. Jacob served for Rachel but was given Leah, then he had to serve seven more years after receiving Rachel. His wives bore him 11 sons and a daughter while he was in service to Laban for thirteen years after he got married. In all that time…

  • Jacob part 1

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    Jacob seems to have caught and held the vision of what his grandfather had been promised more than his father had. Where Isaac seemed content to be good and askew the Lord to operate, Jacob seems tutu be more if an active seeker as Abraham had been.

  • Isaac

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    Isaac had a life marked by conflict. From the time he was born there was strife between him and Ishmael. After he became a father there was strife between his twin sons Esau and Jacob. His life is interesting to evaluate because on the one hand we have a man who was willing to lay…

  • Abrahams posterity

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    I always think of Abraham as the father of two sons each of whom had enough posterity to form a nation. It’s too ready to forget the six sons he had with Keturah who he matured after the death of Sarah. Even if none of those six sons had as much posterity as Ishmael or…

  • Abraham and sacrifice

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    When the Lord commanded Abraham to do something which he found reprehensible and whichWould seem to keepsake the fulfilling of the covenant that God had made with him, Abraham code to believe that God had a purpose in His request and faithfully went to complete the task he was commanded to do. I wonder if…

  • Abraham part 2

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    Because of the animosity between Sarah and Hagar I think we often lose sight of the fact that Abraham loved both of his sons.

  • Abraham part 1

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    Thirteen years after the birth of Ishmael the Lord gave Abraham his new name and promised him a child by Sarah to carry the covenant. That was when the practice of circumcision was introduced. I think we forget that Abraham pled for Ishmael to be blessed. He didn’tplay favorites with his sons.it was the Lord…

  • Abram part 3

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    I don’t know why I had never realized before that Abraham was told before he ever had children that his seed would serve in captivity for 400 years and that the fourth generation (which turns out to be Moses’ generation) would come out of bondage. It sounds like Hagar was a servant that Sarah got…