Genesis Chapters 17-19

Preface: While I genuinely hope that this is the post that generates lots of discussion, and believe that it may because of the subject matter, I feel that I need to remind everyone that hate speech absolutely will not be tolerated on this page. I am all for debate and allowing people to express their opinions. However personal attacks and outright hate speech is not allowed! 

With that being said, let’s jump right in to chapter seventeen!

 

Genesis Chapters 14-16

Yay! Things start getting good again! Chapters fourteen and fifteen are actually pretty mundane, but stay with me! It’ll be worth the wait when I get to chapter sixteen!

In chapter fourteen, there are some countries fighting, and in the midst of the fighting Lot is taken captive. A’bram receives word of this, takes his men, and sets out to save him. While he is at it, he recovers things that have been taken from Sod’om, and returns them to their king. The king offers him a reward, but A’bram refuses.

 

Genesis Chapters 10-13

Chapter ten brings us back to a lot of simple lists of fathers and their children, and where they lived. It basically breaks down Noah’s family tree. Not much in this chapter is interesting beyond some of the names. Names like: Gomer, Cush, Nimrod, and Mash. The mental images I have of some of these men is not necessarily positive.