- Has anyone else noticed how many times Abraham's age is mentioned in this section? "And Abraham was seventy-five years old.." (12 : 4) "When Abraham was ninety-nine years old..." (17 : 1) etc, etc, etc... I wonder why it was so important?
- I like the whole 18: 22-33 part, where Abraham is asking God to spare Sodom and Gomorrah if there were fifty righteous men....forty-five....forty....thirty-five...thirty.....it really demonstrates God's patience with men. :)
- And I would like some help with verse 18 : 21: "I will go down there now and see whether they have done according to the outcry against it that comes to Me; and if not, I will know." God was, of course, well aware of what was going on in Sodom and Gomorrah, so why does He say that He has to go see if it is really like that?? I'm confused.
- This is kind of strange.......why does Lot say in verse 19 : 8 that his daughters were virgins, when it specifies a few verses later that they were both married?
- I just realized that Rebekah had two uncles who's names were Huz and Buz. That really struck me as funny for some reason! (22 : 21)
- And in 26: 6-9, when Issac gets all afraid (just like Abraham did twice before) and told a foreign king: "She is my sister", God once again opens the king's eyes and saves everyone from the situation, just as he did before. His mercy is unending with us silly people!
OK, well, that's all the random thoughts I have so far. :P I'm sure there will be plenty more tomorrow.
~Sadie
2 comments:
I always thought that Lot had more than two daughters...two unmarried and several married. I don't know, I could be wrong. Lot says:
"Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man..." perhaps he's saying "I have two daughters left that aren't married..."
On the other hand, I don't have any scriptures to back this up, so I kind of just made it up on my own, because I was wondering the same thing :)
It's just an idea...
I think that's right...I think Lot had two daughters at home who weren't married, but he also had other daughters that had been married before.
As far as the verse about God going down to see if Sodom and Gomorrah were wicked, I really don't know. I noticed back in the garden of Eden that after Adam and Eve hid themselves, God said "Where are you?" So there's antoher example of God "pretending," if you will, that he didn't know what he did know. Why, exactly, I'm not sure.
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