Although Abraham is the father of our faith, we see in Chapter 20 through his dealings with Abimelech that he was beset by the same worries and fears we all have.  First, his faith in God was limited because obviously from his words of “surely, I thought there is no fear of God in this place”, he […]

It seems like Abraham can never stay put in one place. Although the Bible doesn’t specifically mention why Abraham was constantly on the move, the answer would have been apparent to anybody in that era. As a shepherd with a huge amount of flock to tend to, it would have been necessary to constantly be […]

Today we begin Genesis Chapter 20. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. Following on the heels of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Scripture tells us that “Abraham journeyed onward from there to the Negeb region and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and he sojourned in Gerar.“ […]

“Lot went up from Tzo‘ar and lived in the hills with his two daughters, because he was afraid to stay in Tzo‘ar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.  The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there isn’t a man on earth to come in to us in the […]

“Avraham got up early in the morning, went to the place where he had stood before YAHWEH, and looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah, scanning the entire plain. There before him the smoke was rising from the land like smoke from a furnace! But when YAHWEH destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Avraham and sent Lot […]