Study Questions for Genesis 12-26
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  1. Study Questions for Genesis 12-26

    1. What three promises does God make to Abram at the beginning of chapter 12?

    2. What did God command Abram to do in order to receive these promises?

    3. Why did Abram go down into Egypt?

    4. What trick did Abram use to protect himself from Pharaoh’s jealousy? What did God do to Pharaoh?

    5. Who was the relative that accompanied Abram on his journeys?

    6. How did Abram settle the dispute between his herdsmen and Lot’s? What does this tell us about Abram’s character?

    7. Name the four kings who fought against five other kings. Why did Abram have to rescue Lot from them?

    8. To whom did Abram pay one tenth of everything he’d taken from the kings who had kidnapped Lot?

    9. What complaint did Abram make to God in chapter 15? What did God promise him?

    10. What did God tell Abram about the future of his descendants?

    11. How did Sarai try to solve the problem of their childlessness? What happened as a result?

    12. What change did God make in Abram and Sarai’s names? Why? What sign of covenant did God give him?

    13. How many ‘men’ appeared to Abraham at the oaks of Mamre? What news did they bring? How did Sarah react?

    14. How did Abraham react to the news that God intended to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?

    15. What kind of sin did the men of Sodom wish to commit with Lot’s angelic guests?

    16. What happened to Lot’s wife? Why? What happened to Sodom and Gomorrah?

    17. What problem did Abraham create for Abimelech, king of Gerar? How did God spare him?

    18. Who was Sarah’s legitimate son? How did Sarah’s attitude toward Ishmael change after her son’s birth?

    19. What dispute did Abimelech’s servants cause between Abraham and Abimelech? How did the two men resolve it? What does ‘Beer-sheba’ mean?

    20. How did God test Abraham in chapter 22?

    21. What did Abraham ask his servant to do for his son Isaac? Who was Isaac’s wife?

    22. Whom did Abraham marry after Sarah’s death?

    23. Who were Isaac and Rebekah’s children? What did God predict about the two them? How were the two boys different in character?

    24. What did Esau sell for some red pottage?

    25. What did God warn Isaac not to do during the time of famine? Why were the Philistines envious of Isaac?
    26. What did Esau do that made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah, his parents?





Mrs. Moroles
Oratory Athenaeum
Pharr, TX