Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the nation of Israel

- March 13, 2020

Important events that occurred after God made a covenant with Noah and his sons until the Israelites were rescued from Egypt:

God's Covenant with Noah after the great flood
The LORD calls Abram
The LORD promises an heir to Abram
The LORD foretells what would happen to Abram's descendants in a land for four hundred years
The LORD makes a Covenant with Abram
The LORD's promise of a son to Abraham
The LORD meets Abraham before destroying Sodom and Gomorrah
Birth of Isaac
Abraham's faith tested
Abraham sends his chief servant to get a wife for Isaac
The LORD foretells Rebekah about the two nations that will come from within her
Birth of Esau and Jacob
Esau despises his birthright
God confirms the oath, that He swore to Abraham, with Isaac
Esau marries Canaanite women
Rebekah compels Jacob to deceive Esau and Isaac
Jacob deceitfully takes Esau's blessing from Isaac
Rebekah's instruction to Jacob
Isaac's instructions to Jacob
The LORD appears to Jacob
The Stone of Bethel
Laban deceives Jacob into marrying both his daughters
Jacob and his twelve sons
Jacob prospers
Jacob serves Laban for twenty years
Jacob sets out to the land of Canaan
A Man wrestles with Jacob
The LORD gives Jacob a new name - Israel
Jacob sets a stone pillar
The LORD's use of Joseph to save Jacob and his household
Israel goes to Egypt
Israelites oppressed in Egypt
The LORD's use of Moses to rescue the Israelites from Egypt

Excerpts from Scriptures describing the aforementioned events:

God's Covenant with Noah after the great flood

Genesis 9

But as for you,be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”

Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark.

And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."

The LORD calls Abram

Abram lived in Ur of Chaldeans. Later, he settled in Harran.

Then the LORD said to Abram to go to the land He will show him. Abram set out from Harran and went to the land of Canaan

Genesis 12

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you

I will make you into a great nation,

and I will bless you;

I will make your name great,

so that you will be a blessing.

I will bless those who bless you

and curse those who curse you;

and all the families of the earth

will be blessed through you.”

Genesis 12:7

Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.”

Land of Canaan would later become kingdom of Israel.

The LORD promises an heir to Abram

Genesis 15

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Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, “This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir.”
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And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
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Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.

The LORD foretells what would happen to Abram's descendants in a land for four hundred years

Genesis 15

As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own; they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.

You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.

In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

The LORD makes a Covenant with Abram

Genesis 15

On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—

the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,

Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,

Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”

Genesis 17

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.

I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.”

Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,

“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.

No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.

I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”

The LORD's promise of a son to Abraham

Genesis 17

Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.

And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her."

But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac.I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

Isaac - he laughs

But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”

When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.

On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.

So Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,

The LORD meets Abraham before destroying Sodom and Gomorrah

Genesis 18

And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?

Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised."

Birth of Isaac

Genesis 21

Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.

So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him.

And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.

Abraham's faith tested

Genesis 22

Just then, the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he replied.

“Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me or Me ”

And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time,

saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,

I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.

And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice”

Abraham sends his chief servant to get a wife for Isaac

So Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,

and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling,

but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.”

Note: Noah had three sons - Japheth, Shem and Ham, the youngest. Noah cursed Canaan, fourth son of Ham, because Ham told his brothers about Noah's nakedness.

The LORD foretells Rebekah about the two nations that will come from within her

Genesis 25

and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,

and He declared to her:

“Two nations are in your womb,

and two peoples from within you will be separated;

one people will be stronger than the other,

and the older will serve the younger.”

Birth of Esau and Jacob

When her time came to give birth, there were

indeed twins in her womb.

The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.

After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob.

And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.

Note:

Jacob means he grasps the heel, a Hebrew idiom that means he deceives.

Esau despises his birthright

Genesis 25

“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.

“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?"

“Swear to me first,” Jacob said.

So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.

Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

God confirms the oath that he swore to Abraham

Genesis 26

The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Settle in the land where I tell you.

Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,

because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

Esau marries Canaanite women

When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

Note : Noah put a curse on Canaan

Rebekah compels Jacob to deceive Esau and Isaac

Genesis 27

Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back,

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau, 7

‘Bring me some game and prepare me a tasty dish to eat, so that I may bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.’

Now, my son, listen to my voice and do exactly as I tell you.

Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.

Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”

Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.

What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”

His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”

Jacob deceitfully takes Esau's blessing from Isaac

May God give to you the dew of heaven

and the richness of the earth—

an abundance of grain and new wine.

May peoples serve you

and nations bow down to you.

May you be the master of your brothers,

and may the sons of your mother bow down to you.

May those who curse you be cursed,

and those who bless you be blessed.”

Rebekah's instruction to Jacob

Genesis 27

When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.

So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.

Stay with him for a while, until your brother’s fury subsides—

until your brother’s rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”

Isaac's instructions to Jacob

Genesis 28

So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.

“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.

And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”

The LORD appears to Jacob

Jacob fled from his brother Esau and went to Padan Aram in Harran where Laban, his mother's brother lived.

Genesis 28

Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran.

On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.

And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.

And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.
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Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

When Jacob woke up, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”

And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!"

The Stone of Bethel

Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,

and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.

Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,

so that I may return safely to my father’s house, then the LORD will be my God.

And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth."

Laban deceives Jacob into marrying both his daughters

Genesis 29

Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me.”

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.

Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”

But when evening came, Laban took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept with her. 24

And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.

When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’t it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”

Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.

Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work."

And Jacob did just that. He finished the week’s celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.

Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.

Jacob and his twelve sons

Jacob had twelve sons:

The sons of Leah were Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.

The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.

And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher.

These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

Jacob prospers

Genesis 30

Thus Jacob became exceedingly prosperous. He owned large flocks, maidservants and menservants, and camels and donkeys.

Jacob served Laban for twenty years

I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.

I did not bring you anything torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or night.

As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”

Jacob sets out to the land of Canaan

Genesis 31

Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”

Genesis 32

Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’

I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.

But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”

A Man wrestles with Jacob

Then Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

When he saw that he had not prevailed against him, he touched the socket of his thigh; so the socket of Jacob’s thigh was dislocated while he wrestled with him.

Then he said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” But he said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

So he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.”

He said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.”

Then Jacob asked him and said, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And he blessed him there.

So Jacob named the place Peniel, for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been preserved."

Note:

Jacob means he grasps the heel, a Hebrew idiom for deceptive behavior.

The Man wrenched his hip with a touch and he limped.

He was given a new name because he prevailed in his struggles with men after fleeing from Esau, and with God— The Man—while wrestling.

The LORD gives Jacob a new name - Israel

Genesis 35

After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.

And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel. ” So God named him Israel.

And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.

The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”

Then God went up from the place where He had spoken with him.

Jacob sets a stone pillar

Genesis 35

Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.

The LORD's use of Joseph to save Jacob and his household

Genesis 45

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near me.” And they did so.

“I am Joseph, your brother,” he said, “the one you sold into Egypt!

And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.

For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.

God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

Now return quickly to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay. 10

You shall settle in the land of Goshen and be near me—you and your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and everything you own.

And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’

Israel goes to Egypt

Genesis 46

So Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

And that night God spoke to Israel in a vision: “Jacob, Jacob!” He said.

“Here I am,” replied Jacob.

“I am God,” He said, “the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will surely bring you back. And Joseph’s own hands will close your eyes.”

Exodus 1

the Israelites were fruitful and increased abundantly; they multiplied and became exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.

Israelites oppressed in Egypt

Exodus 1

Then a new king, who did not know Joseph, came to power in Egypt.

“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.

Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”

So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor.

The LORD's use of Moses to rescue the Israelites from Egypt

Deuteronomy 26

and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous. 6

But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor.

So we called out to the LORD, the God of our fathers; and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, toil, and oppression.

Then the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror, signs, and wonders.

And He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land that You, O LORD, have given me.”

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