Land of Shichem, the plain of Moreh promised to Abraham--Genesis 12:6.
Born ca. 2051BC and died ca. 1876 BC. He received the priesthood from Melchizedek (In the Old Testament, the high priest and king of Salem who blessed Abraham.*)
*The American Heritage (R) Dictionary of the English language. Third Edition copyright, 1992 by the Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronia version licensed from Infosoft International, Inc. All righ t reserved.
Abraham or Abram, biblical patriarch, according tot the book of Genesis (see Genesis 11:25-27, 10), progenitor of the Hebrews, who probably lived in the period between 2000 and 1500 BC. Abraham is re garded by Muslims, who called him Ibrahim, as an ancestor of the Arabs through Ishmael. He was once considered as contemporary of Hammurabi, king of Babylonia. Because the biblical account of his li fe based on tradition preserved by oral transmission rather than by historical records, no biography in the present sense be written.
Originally called Abram, Abraham was the son of Terah, a descendant of Shem, and married his half-sister Sarai, or Sarah. They left Ur with his nephew Lot and lot's family under a divine inspiratio n and went to Haran. Receiving a promise that Goid would make him a "great nation," Abram moved on to Canaan, where he lived as a nomad. Famine led him to Egypt, but he was driven out for misreprese nting Sarai as his sister. Again in Canaan, after quarrels between Abram and Lot and their herdsmen, they separated, Lot remaining near Sodom and Abram continuing his nomadic life. He later rescue d Lot from the captivity of King Chedorlaomer of Elam and was blessed by the priest Melchizedek, king of Salem. Then, God promised Abram a son by his wife Sarai, repeated his earlier promises, and co nfirmed these by a covenant.
When this covenant was later renewed, the rite of circumcision was established, Abram's name became Abraham, and Sarai became Sarah. God subsequently repeated his promise of of a son by Srah by mean s of a visiting angel.
Isaac, born to Abraham and Sarah in his 100th year, was the first of his legitimate descendants. God demanded that Abraham sacrifice Isaac as a test of faith, but because of Abraham's unquestioning c ompliance, God permitted him to spare Isaac and rewarded Abraham with a formal renewal of His Promise. After Sarah died, Abraham married Keturah. He died at the biblical age of 175 year old.
Christians, Muslims, and Jews accept Abraham as an epitome of the unswerving faith, a view reflected in the New Testament of the Bible.
When God informed Abraham that he intended to destroy Sodom and Gommorah because of the wickedness of their inhabitants, Abraham pleaded with God to spare the cities. Eventually, it was agreed that G od would spare the cities if he could find only ten righteous people. The ten men could not be found, and God destroyed both cities.
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Abraham
fl. early 2nd millennium BC
Hebrew AVRAHAM, also called Abram, Hebrew AVRAM, the first of the Hebrew patriarchs and a figure revered by the three great monotheistic religion: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. According tot th e Book of Genesis, Abraham left Ur, in Mesopotamia, because God called him to found a new nation in an undesignated land that he later learned was Canaan. He obeyed unquestioning the commands of God , from whom he received repeated promises and a covenant that his "seed" would inherit the land.
[Darryl Eley I2.FTW]
Land of Shichem, the plain of Moreh promised to Abraham--Genesis 12:6.
Born ca. 2051BC and died ca. 1876 BC. He received the priesthood from Melchizedek (In the Old Testament, the high priest and king of Salem who blessed Abraham.*)
*The American Heritage (R) Dictionary of the English language. Third Edition copyright, 1992 by the Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from Infosoft International, Inc. All righ t reserved.
Abraham or Abram, biblical patriarch, according tot the book of Genesis (see Genesis 11:25-27, 10), progenitor of the Hebrews, who probably lived in the period between 2000 and 1500 BC. Abraham is re garded by Muslims, who called him Ibrahim, as an ancestor of the Arabs through Ishmael. He was once considered as contemporary of Hammurabi, king of Babylonia. Because the biblical account of his li fe based on tradition preserved by oral transmission rather than by historical records, no biography in the present sense be written.
Originally called Abram, Abraham was the son of Terah, a descendant of Shem, and married his half-sister Sarai, or Sarah. They left Ur with his nephew Lot and lot's family under a divine inspiratio n and went to Haran. Receiving a promise that Goid would make him a "great nation," Abram moved on to Canaan, where he lived as a nomad. Famine led him to Egypt, but he was driven out for misreprese nting Sarai as his sister. Again in Canaan, after quarrels between Abram and Lot and their herdsmen, they separated, Lot remaining near Sodom and Abram continuing his nomadic life. He later rescue d Lot from the captivity of King Chedorlaomer of Elam and was blessed by the priest Melchizedek, king of Salem. Then, God promised Abram a son by his wife Sarai, repeated his earlier promises, and co nfirmed these by a covenant.
When this covenant was later renewed, the rite of circumcision was established, Abram's name became Abraham, and Sarai became Sarah. God subsequently repeated his promise of of a son by Srah by mean s of a visiting angel.
Isaac, born to Abraham and Srah in his 100th year, was the first of his legitimate descendants. God demanded that Abraham sacrifice Isaac as a test of faith, but because of Abraham's unquestioning co mpliance, God permitted him to spare Isaac and rewarded Abraham with a formal renewal of His Promise. After Sarah died, Abraham married Keturah. He died at the biblical age of 175 year old.
Christians, Muslims, and Jews accept Abraham as an epitome of the unswerving faith, a view reflected in the New Testament of the Bible.
When God informed Abraham that he intended to destroy Sodom and Gommorah because of the wickedness of their inhabitants, Abraham pleaded with God to spare the cities. Eventually, it was agreed that G od would spare the cities if he could find only ten righteous people. The ten men could not be found, and God destroyed both cities.
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Abraham
fl. early 2nd millennium BC
Hebrew AVRAHAM, also called Abram, Hebrew AVRAM, the first of the Hebrew patriarchs and a figure revered by the three great monotheistic religion: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. According tot th e Book of Genesis, Abraham left Ur, in Mesopotamia, because God called him to found a new nation in an undesignated land that he later learned was Canaan. He obeyed unquestioning the commands of God , from whom he received repeated promises and a covenant that his "seed" would inherit the land.