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Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. I want to start today with a bit of encouragement. I love seeing that you're all looking to Scripture for truth. In Acts 17, 11, Luke praises the Bereans who did this.
He says, "...now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." Please do that with everything I say here. Because first of all, there may be times when I'm just plain wrong about something.
I go to great lengths to avoid that, but it's bound to happen at some point. And then at other times, I may not communicate something in the clearest way possible and it may end up being confused. So forgive me for any missteps I make in communication and know that I make every effort to speak truth with clarity. And keep searching the scriptures because I am not the final word on anything.
Okay, today in our reading, we open with Abraham remarrying after Sarah's death. His second wife is named Keturah. And even though he is super old, he has six more kids, which brings us to a grand total of eight. But all his inheritance goes to Isaac, as God told him, because Isaac is the child through which God would establish his promise to Abraham.
He's also the only child of Abraham's first wife, Sarah. Abraham dies at 175 years old. His son with Hagar, Ishmael, died a few decades later when he was 137. We encounter a few lines of genealogies here, but resist the urge to skip past those. Let your eyes fall on every word. You won't remember it all, but once you see something several times, it starts to stick with you little by little.
And here's one of my favorite pro tips. If you get bogged down trying to pronounce all the names in genealogies as you read them, maybe try having an audio Bible app read them to you. After the genealogies, we get bits and pieces of a few storylines throughout the rest of our reading.
I'm going to follow the Isaac storyline first, then I'll jump back to the part about his kids, so I'm not necessarily always going to recap in the exact order we're reading it, I'm just summarizing. In chapter 26, God appears to Isaac like he did to Abraham. And then, right after God's promise to him, Isaac starts lying.
He manifests the same sins of his father Abraham, calling his wife his sister. But this time it wasn't even half true. And some commentators say this could have also been the same king Abimelech that Abraham dealt with about the very same thing. In both of these stories, we see that King Abimelech actually has a higher view of God's holiness than Abraham and Isaac seem to.
In response to Isaac's sin, God protects him and blesses him, and quickly. Within a year, Isaac sows and reaps 100-fold. Because of his success, King Abimelech tries to get rid of him, which is one thing we'll see a lot of. Anytime this family that God has established a relationship with starts to flourish, the people around them notice. They become jealous of them or afraid of them.
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