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his male descendants, This was to seal the covenant. God then made another promise to Abram. God promised Abram that Sarai would soon bear a son, and that she would some day be the mother of nations. Abram was said to have found God’s last promise rather amusing. It was probably because Sarai was 90 years old and incapable of bearing children anymore. Sarah was also witness to the promise of a child, for God sent angels to her promising that she would have a male son. The last part of God’s covenant was that the name Abram be changed to Abraham, and Sarai changed to Sarah. Abraham means “Noble Father”. Through this covenant, God was planning to send his savior. God once again confided in Abraham by telling him that he was plotting to soon destroy the cities of Sodom and

Gomorrah due to the corruptness of their inhabitants. Upon hearing this, Abraham pleads with God telling him that their are many innocent people that do not deserve to die. God reconsidered, and agreed that if he could find 50 innocent people he would not destroy the two cities. Under pressure from Abraham, he reduced the number to just 10 innocent people. God sent his Angels out in search of just 10 righteously guided people. Upon reporting back to God, the angels were only able to find Lot to be innocent and good. God then appeared to Lot and told him to take his entire family and to leave. Lot’s wife later disobeys God’s orders to leave, and she is turned into a pillar of salt. Abraham’s family then migrated to Negev. While traveling through the city of Gerar, he once

again is fearful of Sarah being taken from him, so he and Sarah tell everyone that they are Brother and Sister. This time, Abimelekh, the King of Gerar, took Sarah away. God then appeared to King Gerar in a dream. King Gerar later returns Sarah to Abraham and gave him extra compensation to make up for his mistake of taking Sarah away. Some time later, Sarah had the son that God promised her. Sarah laughed upon the birth of the child so they named the child Isaac. The term Issac means “he laughed” in Hebrew. Sarah finds that Ishmael is a terrible influence on Isaac, so she tells Abraham to send him away with his mother. Abraham at first is very reluctant to send away his first born son, but God suggests that Abraham listens to what his wife Sarah has asked. God also promised

that some day Ishmael would have his own nation. Once Isaac was slightly older, God commanded Abraham to take Isaac to a mountain and to sacrifice him at the top. This was an ultimate test that God gave to Abraham. Being God’s servant, Abraham went as he was told with Isaac to the top of a mountain in order to sacrifice his son. Abraham prepared to cut Isaac’s throat, but just in the nick of time God’s angels stopped him. Seeing that there was a ram caught in some bushes, Abraham sacrificed that to God instead. Sarah later died in Hebron. Abraham decided to buy the Makhpelah Cave and the adjoining field from Ephrom the Hittite for a burial site. Abraham then realized that Isaac should have a wife. Abraham sent one of his servants back to his homeland to search out a wife

for Isaac. The servant was able to find Rebecca, Isaac’s cousin, and was able to get her to come back and marry Isaac. Abraham also found himself marrying Keturah, a concubine. Abraham and Keturah had 6 children , Zimran, Yakshan, Medan, Midian, Yishbak, and Shuach, before dying at the biblical age of 175. Isaac and Ishmael buried their father in the Makhpelah Cave next to their mother, Sarah. In the end, God kept his promise with Abraham. Abraham was father to a new nation, that’s how he got the title of Father to the Jewish people. The rest of the bible primarily tells about the children of Abraham. Abraham is therefore one of the most important early characters mentioned in the bible.