life of abraham Flashcards
what was Abraham’s first name?
Abram
who was Abram’s father?
Tereh
who did Abram marry?
Sarai
where did Abram move to with his father and brother?
Haran
Who did God tell Abram to get away from?
His country, people and his fathers household
where did God ask Abram to go?
to the land where we would show him
what did God promise Abram when he asked him to leave?
that he would bless him and make him a great nation?
How old was Abraham when he left for Canaan and when he got the call from God to follow him in a strrange land?
75
who else did abram take with him (apart from his wife and servants?
his nephew, Lot
abram went to Sichem, into the plain of Moreh, what did god say to him there?
Unto they seed will, I give this land
Why did abram go to egypt?
because there was famine in the land
who did abram tell sarai to say she was so that she would not get killed?
her sister
why did god plague Pharoah’s house in egypt while abraham was living there?
because Sarai was abraham’s wife in the house of pharoah
what did pharoah do when he found out sarai was Abraham’s wife and not his sister?
he sent them away
where did Lot choose to go when he departed from Abraham?
to the plain of jordan, with his tent pitched toward jordan
what did abraham do when he heard that his nephew Lot was capture by King Chedorlaomer?
He went with his 318 trained servants and defeated the king and set the captured people free and also brought back all the stolen goods
why would abraham not accept the goods offered to him by the king Sodom?
because he did not want the king to say that he had made abraham rich
who was abraham’s most trusted servant?
Eliezer of Damascus
what sign did god give abraham to prove that his promise of land was real?
a smoking furnace and a burning lamp
what was Hagar’s relationship to abraham?
slave
what land does god promise abraham?
cannon
how old was abraham when isaac was born?
100
how old was sarai when she gave birth to Isaac?
90
who was isaac and ishmaei’s father
abraham
who was Ishmaei’s mother
hagar
what does Abimelech mean?
Father of the King
how did the Jews regard Abraham
as the first Patriarch of the jewish people
what did God ask Abraham to sacrifice to test his utter obedience?
God asked him to sacrifice his son Isaac by Sarah but at the last minute changed his mind and instead they killed a ram as the sacrifice
what is the story of Abraham based on?
it is based on obedience to the will of God
