Since God is all knowing and Just. So I will see this as a promise keeping and faithful God. If so then we will see that when Joshua and the Israelites enter the promise land that is consider massacre as every living thing are killed. or do you consider judgement on the wicked??
2 Gen 16:11-12 This is consider a curse or bless? N if curse then y Gen 16:9 bless for increase in decendants...
The same blessing upon Abraham's descendant. Yet God is prophesying on him and his descendant...which is true even today.
3 Gen 17:14 Covenant can be void? Coz don't hv it now ma...
No. Not void but can be broken. This covenant is meant for the Israelites. The direct descendant of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel).
4 Gen 18:7 Wah last time ppl cook so fast de ah? Hee...
Dont know about that but surely due to the unexpected guest..VIP. So have to really prepare a good meal quick.
5 Gen 19:19 Why he reply this way? How he know if run to mountain he'll sure die?
Lot knows that running to the mountains may require too much time which the burning sulfur might have arrived and overtake them. So he ask for mercy. The town is spared because of him.
5 Gen 19:19 Why he reply this way? How he know if run to mountain he'll sure die?
Lot knows that running to the mountains may require too much time which the burning sulfur might have arrived and overtake them. So he ask for mercy. The town is spared because of him.
6 Gen 19:25 Look back but she already reach the small town not running liao ma.. Y cannot let them look back la... Wat's the moral of the story?
Sometimes when you look back is because you cannot let go... Yet as they are told not too so due to disobedient by not following orders she is turn into a pillar of salt.
7 Gen 19:29 So Lot is the only righteous man in tht town la... If it's not Abraham's reminder, God will kill Lot too? (a righteous man too leh...) then y Abraham don't directly ask God to spare Lot....
Not sure if Lot could be consider righteous but I guess he is better than all the rest of the man in the town. Yes because of Abraham's intercession, Lot is spared. God say as long as there is 10 righteous man it will not be destroy so God knows there isnt that many. After reading v30 Lot and the daughters take note of the 2 tribes Moabites and the Ammonites are these being destroy?
7 Gen 19:29 So Lot is the only righteous man in tht town la... If it's not Abraham's reminder, God will kill Lot too? (a righteous man too leh...) then y Abraham don't directly ask God to spare Lot....
Not sure if Lot could be consider righteous but I guess he is better than all the rest of the man in the town. Yes because of Abraham's intercession, Lot is spared. God say as long as there is 10 righteous man it will not be destroy so God knows there isnt that many. After reading v30 Lot and the daughters take note of the 2 tribes Moabites and the Ammonites are these being destroy?
8 Gen 23:15 How much is 400 shekels? Hee.. juz curious...
According to the olden days the monetary is measure in terms of weights.
A Biblical Shekel was about half an ounce.
Now a Israel shekel is about US$0.25
9 Gen 25:1-4 Abraham started the more than 1 wife trend ah?
This is the first recorded instance for a man after the wife died took another wife.
10 Why Abraham took another wife?
Mmmm....He is still young to have another loh.
11 Keturah is which tribe one?
11 Keturah is which tribe one?
This is the name of Abraham 2nd wife and each son born to Abraham became a tribe. Yet Abraham knows that Isaac is the key and v5 he left everything he owned to Isaac.
12 Gen 26:4 How would nations be blessed? Jesus ma?
12 Gen 26:4 How would nations be blessed? Jesus ma?
You can say Jesus. But Israel is to be the blessings for all nation.
13 Gen 26:7 Like father like son ya?
13 Gen 26:7 Like father like son ya?
Yes. Clue: This is part of the answer to my question.
14 Thot the abimelech king quite nice one so will protect him then no nd to lie le ma... Especially with abraham's experience...
14 Thot the abimelech king quite nice one so will protect him then no nd to lie le ma... Especially with abraham's experience...
Same reason.... Isaac scare of losing his life because of his beautiful wife.
15 Gen 26:35 Hmm... I wonder y...
15 Gen 26:35 Hmm... I wonder y...
The answer lies that they are not to marry a Canaanite. see Gen28:6-8
6Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
7and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.
8 Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac;
