The Calling & Travels
This is the native land and city Abram was instructed to leave when God called him.
What is Ur of the Chaldeans (or Haran)?
Lot stood in this family relationship to Abram.
Who is Abram’s nephew (brother’s son)?
this was the name of Abram’s wife before God changed her name to Sarah.
Who is Sarai?
God told Abram to look up at the night sky and count these to illustrate how vast his descendants would be
What are the stars?
"Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land..."
Who is the Lord?
God promised to show Abram this specific land and give it to his descendants.
What is Canaan?
Quarrels arose between Abram's and Lot's herdsmen because of this issue.
What is insufficient land/grazing area for both of their livestock?
Abram told Pharaoh that Sarai was his sister rather than his wife for this reason.
What is fear that the Egyptians would kill him to take her?
In Genesis 15:6, Abram believed the Lord, and God credited it to him as this.
What is righteousness?
"Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me... for we are close relatives."
Who is Abram
Abram traveled to this country because a severe famine struck the land of Canaan.
What is Egypt?
When Abram gave Lot the first choice of land, Lot chose the well-watered plain near this city.
What is Sodom (or the Jordan Plain)?
This priest-king of Salem brought out bread and wine and blessed Abram after the battle.
Who is Melchizedek?
During the covenant ceremony in Genesis 15, God foretold that Abram’s descendants would be enslaved in a foreign land for this many years.
What is 400 years?
"Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth."
Who is Melchizedek?
Upon arriving in the land of Canaan, Abram built one of these at Shechem and Bethel to worship the Lord.
What is an altar?
Four eastern kings captured Lot and his possessions during a war in this valley.
What is the Valley of Siddim (the Salt Sea region)?
Abram gave Melchizedek this portion of all the goods recovered from the battle.
What is a tenth (a tithe)?
God made a covenant specifying that Abram’s descendants would inherit land spanning from this river in Egypt to this great eastern river.
What are the River of Egypt and the Euphrates River?
"Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself."
Who is the King of Sodom?
This was the name of Abram’s father, who originally led the family out of Ur.
Who is Terah?
Abram led this exact number of trained men born in his household to rescue Lot.
What is 318?
Prior to God’s promise of a biological son, Abram believed this chief servant from Damascus would inherit his estate.
Who is Eliezer?
In the covenant ceremony, these two symbolic objects passed between the divided animal pieces after dark.
What are a smoking firepot and a blazing torch?
"I will not accept a thread or the strap of a sandal or anything that belongs to you, so that you can never say, 'I made Abram rich.'"
Who is Abram