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GENESIS TWELVE

I. ISAAC AND REBEKAH (Genesis 24-26)

A. Abraham sends servant back to original home of Mesopotamia to find wife for Isaac (24:1-9).

B. Rebekah fulfills servant’s request of God for a sign as she meets Abraham’s servant at well (24:10-27).

C. Rebekah brings Abraham’s servant to her home to meet her family and allow servant to tell of the mission (24:28-60).

D. Rebekah and her damsels travel with Abraham’s servant and companions to meet Isaac – She becomes Isaac’s wife (24:61-67).

E. Abraham’s later years and descendants with wife Keturah (25:1-11).

F. The generations of Ishamel and his death (25:12-18).

G. Offspring of Isaac and Rebekah: birth and early life of Esau and Jacob (25:19-34, 26:34-35).

H. God appears to Isaac in Philistine city of Gerar and renews God’s threefold Abrahamic promise (26:1-5).

I. Isaac’s conflict with Philistine king Abimelech over Isaac hiding the fact that Rebekah is his wife when he says she is his sister (26:6-11).

J. Isaac prospers a hundredfold in Gerar – asked by Abimelech to leave (26:12-17).

K. Isaac digs again the wells of his father in the valley of Gerar and Beersheba (26:18-25,32-33).

L. Abimelech seeks covenant of peace with Isaac (26:26-31).

QUESTONS:

1, Why is Abraham so determined that Isaac should not return to his homeland of Mesopotamia?

2. How sobering to Abraham was the action in finding Isaac a wife?

3. What two-fold response was the sign to the servant that God was behind the choosing of this woman to be Isaac’s wife?

4. How did the servant include God in his journey?

5. Fill in Rebekah’s and Isaac’s family tree:

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6. How was Rebekah related to Isaac?

7. How focused was the servant in his mission for Abraham?

8. Why could Laban and Bethuel not speak unto the servant good or bad?

9. Did Rebekah have any say so in becoming the wife of Isaac?

10. What was Isaac doing at eventide when the servant was arriving with Rebekah?

11. Why did Rebekah cover herself in her veil when she met Isaac?

12. What did Isaac give and receive in taking Rebekah as his wife?

13. Who was Abraham’s wife after Sarah died?

14. How did Abraham make a distinction with Isaac and the sons of his concubines?

15. What were the days of the years of Abraham’s life?

16. Where was Abraham buried?

17. How many children did Ishmael have and where did they dwell?

18. How long was Isaac and Rebekah without a child in their marriage?  What did Isaac do in response to this condition?

19. What three facts does Jehovah reveal to Rebekah concerning the children in her womb?

20. What problem do you see in Isaac loving Esau and Rebekah loving Jacob?

21. Why did Esau despise his birthright?

22. What does God do with Isaac at a time of famine?

23. Characterize the action Isaac took to protect himself in Gerar:

24. How did Abimelech know for sure that Rebekah was Isaac’s wife?

25. How much did Jehovah bless Isaac in his year in Gerar?

26. Why did Isaac dig again the wells of his father Abraham?

27. What assurance did Isaac receive from Jehovah at Beersheba?

28. Why did Abimelech seek Isaac after sending him away?

29. Why did Isaac and Rebekah grieve over Esau?

GENESIS- LESSON THIRTEEN

I. Jacob and Esau (Genesis 27-28)

A. Rebekah’s and Jacob’s deception of Isaac regarding the blessing promised to Esau (27:1-45)

1. Isaac instructs Esau to kill venison and prepare savory food to occasion the receiving of Isaac’s blessing

    (v. 1-4).

2. Rebekah forms deceptive plan in order for Jacob to receive the blessing (v. 5-17).

a. Jacob kills two goats.

b. Rebekah prepares savory meat.

c. Rebekah places Esau’s clothes upon Jacob.

d. Goat hair placed upon Jacob’s hands and neck.

3. Jacob carries out deceptive plan, and Isaac pronounces upon Jacob the blessing (v. 18-29).

4. Esau weeps bitterly knowing his Father’s blessing has been given to Jacob (v. 30-45).

a. Esau vows to murder Jacob.

b. Rebekah urges Jacob to flee to Laban until Esau’s fury eases.

B. Upon Rebekah’s stated fears of Jacob finding a wife among the daughters of  Heth, Isaac sends Jacob to Paddanaram      to house of Bethuel, Rebekah’s father(27:46-28:5)

1. Jacob to find wife among daughters of Laban, Rebekah’s brother.

2. Isaac renews Abrahamic promise with Jacob and his seed.

C. Esau chooses daughter of Ishmael to be among his wives (28:6-9)

1. Esau makes choice because he knew it displeased his father to take wife from the daughters of Canaan.

2. Mahalath (Basemath- Gen. 36:3) is chosen as wife – daughter of Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael.

D. Jacob’s vision at Bethel (28:10-22)

1. Jacob’s dream: angels ascending and descending on ladder reaching into heaven.

2. God at ladder pronounces blessing first given to Abraham upon Jacob and his seed.

a. Land where Jacob now lies promised to him and his seed.

b. Seed to be multiplied as dust of the earth in all four directions: West, East, North and South

c. In thy seed shall all of the families of earth be blessed

3. Jacob wakes up in fear thinking he is at the house of God, the gate of heaven.

4. Jacob rises early to place the stone, on which he laid his head, upon a pillar and poured oil upon it calling the                    place: Bethel: the house of God.

5. Jacob vows if God will protect him and bring him back peacefully to land, the stone upon the pillar will be                    God’s house and he will give the tenth of all that God gives him.

QUESTIONS:

1. What two facts of life does Isaac express to Esau?  How long after this statement did Isaac actually die?

2. Why did Isaac want Esau to do certain things before he was to bless him?

3. Who is to blame for deceiving Isaac: Rebekah, Jacob, or both?

4. What human senses were involved in the deceiving of Isaac to bless Jacob instead of Esau?

5. Is there any difference between “the birthright” and “the blessing”?

6. How does this event of the blessing of Jacob instead of Esau illustrate how God works out what he has promised?

7. What did Rebekah think of the character of Esau’s vow to murder Jacob?

8. Was it original with Isaac to send Jacob to Rebekah’s family to choose a wife?

9. Did Esau pick a wife from family of Ishmael to comply with his father’s wishes or to spite Isaac?

10. What is the connection with Jacob’s vision and the place called Bethel?

11. What is significant about Jacob’s vision at Bethel?

12. In Jacob’s vow, why does he give conditions before saying “Jehovah will be my God”?

13. Why does Jacob vow to give the tenth of all that God shall give him?