turn from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale. * 18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. 19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: 20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. 21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself. 22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, 23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take anything that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich: 24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion. GENESIS XV:1-21-B. C. 1913 vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. 2 And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. 4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; BUT HE THAT SHALL COME FORTH OUT OF THINE OWN BOWELS SHALL BE THINE HEIR. 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. 6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for right eousness. 7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. 8 And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? 9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, +1 After these things the word of and a ram of three years old, and the LORD came unto Abram in aa turtledove, and a young pigeon. *Gen. 14:18-"... He was the priest of the most high God." +Gen. 15:1-6—“... But he that shall come forth out of thine own bowls shall be thine heir." midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds di 10 And he took unto him all † 18 IN THE SAME DAY THE these, and divided them in the LORD MADE A COVENANT WITH ABRAM, SAYING, UNTO THY SEED HAVE I GIVEN THIS LAND, FROM THE RIVER OF EGYPT UNTO THE GREAT RIVER, THE RIVER EUPHRATES: vided he not. 11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. 12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full 17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. +Fulfilled 1817 to 1818. 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 20 And the Hitties, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, 21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. GENESIS XVI:1-16-B. C. 1913 him no children: and she had an 1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. 2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath re strained me from bearing; I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. 3 And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram, to be his wife. * 4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. 5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee. 7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. 8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. 6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand: 9 And the angel of the LORD said do to her as it pleaseth thee. And unto her, Return to thy mistress, when Sarai dealt hardly with her, and submit thyself under her she fled from her face. hands. *Gen. 16:1-14-As a result of the spirit of Hagar "... Her mistress was despised in her eyes. ." Ishmael failed to receive a right HEART-CHARACTER for wisdom. "And he will be a wild man; and his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren." Gen. 16:4-5-Despised, Doubled. Prov. 11:12 "He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace." Is. 45:7-"I form the light and create darkness; I make peace and create evil; I the Lord do all these things." Is. 54:16 "Behold I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work: and I have created the waster to destroy." Ps. 97:10-Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hands of the wicked. See Gen. 29:31-32 and Gen. 49:3-4; also Gen. 30:1-6, and Gen. 49:16-18. Deut. 30:15-16-15 ¶ See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; 16 In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. 10 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. man, and every man's hand against him: and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. 13 And she called the name of 11 And the angel of the LORD the LORD that spake unto her, said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? 14 Wherefore the well was called 12 And he will be a wild man; Beer-lah-roi; behold, it is behis hand will be against every tween Kadesh and Bered. Neh. 2:17-20-17 ¶ Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach. 18 Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work. 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king? 20 Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem. Rom. 9:6-8-6 For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: 7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. 8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. The Outlook, Dec. 20, 1916, by Wm. T. Ellis-His informant said: "When I would have gone into Arabia with only a brace of automatic pistols for defense, he made plain by the story of one of his narrow escapes why a rifle carried in plain sight on the saddle bow is almost indispensible. From him, I learned the trick, which did me good service clear down into the desert of Mesophetamia, of having a target practice when making camp for the benefit of inquisitive natives.” 15 And Hagar bare Abram a son and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. 16 And Abram was fourscore and six years old when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram. GENESIS XVII:1-27-B. C. 1898 * 1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. 2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. 3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, 4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. 9¶ And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations. 10 This is my covenant; which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. 11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. 12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any 5 Neither shall thy name any stranger, which is not of thy seed. more be called Abram, but thy 13 He that is born in thy house, name shall be Abraham; for a and he that is bought with thy father of many nations have money, must needs be circumcised: made thee. 6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. 8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant. † 15¶ And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai, thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. 16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will *Gen. 17:1-27—An everlasting covenant, repeated three times. +Gen. 17:15-16-Sarah, That is, Princess. |