1. 6 Abram was old and childless.

2. KJV: came down upon the Carcases, Abram INT: the birds upon the carcasses drove and Abram

3. At that Abram gave him a tenth of everything.”

4. Abram leaves Haran for Canaan (1-9)

5. What did Abram do while living in Haran?

6. Abram rejected the idolatry so prevalent in Ur

7. When Abram was doing it with him, did he like it?

8. • How did Abram show that he gave priority to Jehovah’s worship?

9. 2, 3. (a) Why did Abram conceal his wife’s true identity?

10. 17 Wherever Abram went, Jehovah’s worship always took priority.

11. At that Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

12. God’s friend Abraham (Abram) and his nephew Lot had become very prosperous.

13. Our mapping has subdivided the Abram Group into three formations.

14. Abram showed reliance on Jehovah in rescuing his nephew Lot

15. 18, 19. (a) How was Abram able to rescue Lot?

16. 4 How did Abram come to learn about Jehovah God?

17. What indicates that Abram stayed on the move in Canaan?

18. And when the fowles came downe vpon the Carcases, Abram droue them away

19. How had the world changed since Noah’s day, and how was Abram affected?

20. Next | Previous | Table of Contents References Abram, K.M. and Teplin, L.A. (1990).

21. How might Christians today face tests like those faced by Abram?

22. (b) What kind of life did Abram and Sarai have together?

23. • Why is Abram called “the father of all those having faith”?

24. 6 How distressing this must have been for Abram and Sarai!

25. (b) In what sense are God’s people today more blessed than Abram?

26. Jehovah’s Witnesses today have a greater basis for faith than did Abram.

27. Thus Abram got to hear that his brother had been taken captive.”

28. How can Abram be expected to leave all of this behind for mere promises?

29. How easy it would have been for Abram to feel bitter about his situation!

30. Picture Abram turning away and shaking his head, a frown creasing his brow.

31. 12 It is interesting to note that while in Haran, Abram ‘accumulated goods.’

32. Abram had waited for many years and still did not have any children.

33. • Why did it require faith for Abram to leave Ur of the Chaldeans?

34. 19. (a) Why would nomadic life have presented challenges for Abram and Sarai?

35. Abram himself made similar reference to God when addressing the king of Sodom.

36. ▪ Abram and his wife lived in the prosperous Chaldean city of Ur.

37. ABRAM had left a life of comfort in Ur in obedience to Jehovah’s command.

38. He was 86 when Sarai’s handmaiden Hagar “bare Ishmael to Abram” (Genesis 16:16).

39. At Genesis 11:26, we read: “Terah . . . became father to Abram, Nahor and Haran.”

40. 12:5) To become a nation, Abram would need material resources and servants —a large household.

41. “At that Abram went just as Jehovah had spoken to him.” —Genesis 12:4.

42. Christocentric Preaching 49 Proclaiming the Word 1 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” 2 But Abram said, “O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is

43. • How did both Abram and Sarai set a good example for husbands and wives today?

44. It therefore took real faith for Abram to leave prosperous Ur and all its comforts.

45. 15, 16. (a) Why was courage required for Abram to build an altar to Jehovah?

46. In Genesis 13 you will learn how Abram responded when conflict and disagreement arose in his family.

47. And there Abram called on the name of the Lord… Then Abram moved his tent, and went and dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an Altar there to the Lord

48. As part of establishing His covenant with Abram, the Lord gave him a new name.

49. Abey is also used as a form of Abraham (Hebrew), and a form of Abram (Hebrew).

50. Abram did not assert his rights but put the interests of Lot ahead of his own

51. In what distressing circumstance did Abram and Sarai find themselves, and how did Jehovah deliver Sarai?

52. Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was sore in the land.

53. As he grew older, Abram was concerned about how God would fulfill the promises regarding his posterity.

54. By living in tents, Abram and his household “publicly declared that they were strangers and temporary residents”

55. Having a beautiful wife, the foreigner, Abram, was in danger of his life in that strange land.

56. How was Abram able to endure as “an alien . . . in a foreign land” for a hundred years?

57. ABRAM looked up, his gaze drawn to the ziggurat that loomed over his home city of Ur.

58. Abram also had a concern about the land that the Lord had promised to him and his posterity.

59. Abram exhibits great sensitivity and insight into the essential reciprocity between our human senses and the sensuous earth.

60. “Abram made his way down toward Egypt to reside there as an alien, because the famine was severe in the land.”

61. “Terah took Abram his son and Lot, the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai [Sarah] his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and they went with him out of Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan.

62. Covenant Conditionality “When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “‘I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless, that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.’” - Genesis 17:1-2

63. And Abram went on through the land as far as the site of Shechem, near the big trees of Moreh.”

64. God told Abram exactly how long his seed would be “an alien resident in a land not theirs,” namely, 400 years.

65. The story of the Covenant between Abram and God, first related in Genesis 12 is a story that is interwoven throughout the …

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67. We might imagine Abram and Sarai alternating between riding and walking, their conversation mingling with the tinkling of bells hanging from the animals’ harnesses.

68. 7 When returning from rescuing Lot, Abraham was met by Melchizedek, king of Salem (later called Jerusalem), who addressed Abraham as “Abram of the Most High God.”

69. 11 But “Abram said to Lot: ‘Please, do not let any quarreling continue between me and you and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we men are brothers.

70. See also Roach, Constitutional Remedies in Canada (cited in note 343); Abram Chayes, "The Role of the Judge in Public Law Litigation" (1976) 89 Harv.

71. The Biblical account shows his name was originally Abram, which means exalted father, but was changed by God to Abraham, meaning father of a multitude, following the covenant

72. (DBY) Genesis 12:16 And he treated Abram well on her account; and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and bondmen, and Bondwomen, and she-asses, and camels

73. The Bible narrates the story of Abraham who in the beginning was called Abram that comes from the Hebrew grammatic roots Ab which means father and

74. He was then tabernacling among the big trees of Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner; and they were confederates of Abram.

75. At God’s command, Abram leaves the Chaldean city of Ur and becomes a tent dweller in a land that Jehovah promises to give to him and his descendants.

76. And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of H Aran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

77. Abraham [according to the Book of Genesis, Heb.,=father of many nations] or Abram (ā`brəm) [Heb.,=exalted father], in the Bible, progenitor of the Hebrews; in the Qur'an, ancestor of the Arabs

78. [1] (paragraph 3) This man and his wife were originally called Abram and Sarai, but in this article we will refer to them by the names Jehovah later gave them —Abraham and Sarah.

79. Because his purposes are absolutely certain of fulfillment, Jehovah “calls the things that are not as though they were” (as in naming Abram “Abraham,” meaning “Father of a Crowd (Multitude)” while he and Sarah were yet childless).

80. His son and son-in-law, Edward Cooper and Abram S. Hewitt, later expanded the Trenton facility into a giant complex employing 2,000 people, in which iron was taken from raw material to finished product.