The childless ABRAM

 

Genesis 11:31-32

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31 And Terah took Abram his son, 

and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, 

and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; 

and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, 

to go into the land of Canaan; 

and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: 

and Terah died in Haran.

GOD had great plans for Abram.

He showed him the land he would own.

He promised him sons to own that land.

But one thing remained.

Proving to be a major problem in the fulfillment of such plans.

To understand, we turn to Scripture:

Genesis 12:1-3

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12 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, 

Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, 

and from thy father's house, 

unto a land that I will shew thee:

2 And I will make of thee a great nation, 

and I will bless thee, 

and make thy name great; 

and thou shalt be a blessing:

3 And I will bless them that bless thee, 

and curse him that curseth thee: 

and in thee shall all families of the earth 

be blessed.

Genesis 12:4-6

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4 So Abram departed, 

as the Lord had spoken unto him; 

and Lot went with him: 

and Abram was seventy and five years old 

when he departed out of Haran.

5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, 

and Lot his brother's son, 

and all their substance that they had gathered, 

and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; 

and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; 

and into the land of Canaan they came.

6 And Abram passed through the land 

unto the place of Sichem, 

unto the plain of Moreh. 

And the Canaanite was then in the land.

Genesis 12:7

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7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram, 

and said, 

Unto thy seed will I give this land: 

and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, 

who appeared unto him.

Genesis 13:12

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12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, 

and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, 

and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

Genesis 13:14-16

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14 And the Lord said unto Abram, 

after that Lot was separated from him, 

Lift up now thine eyes, 

and look from the place where thou art northward, 

and southward, and eastward, and westward:

15 For all the land which thou seest, 

to thee will I give it, 

and to thy seed for ever.

16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: 

so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, 

then shall thy seed also be numbered.

Genesis 15:1

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15 After these things 

the word of the Lord came unto Abram 

in a vision, saying, 

Fear not, Abram: 

I am thy shield, 

and thy exceeding great reward.

Genesis 15:4-5

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4 And, behold, 

the word of the Lord came unto him, 

saying, 

This shall not be thine heir; 

but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels 

shall be thine heir.

5 And he brought him forth abroad, 

and said, 

Look now toward heaven, 

and tell the stars, 

if thou be able to number them: 

and he said unto him, 

So shall thy seed be.

Genesis 15:7

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7 And he said unto him, 

I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, 

to give thee this land to inherit it.

Genesis 15:18-21

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18 In the same day 

the Lord made a covenant with Abram, 

saying, 

Unto thy seed have I given this land, 

from the river of Egypt unto the great river, 

the river Euphrates:

19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, 

and the Kadmonites,

20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, 

and the Rephaims,

21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, 

and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

Going back a few chapters in Genesis, we recall that Abram is the son of Terah.

Genesis 11:27-28

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27 Now these are the generations of Terah: 

Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; 

and Haran begat Lot.

28 And Haran died before his father Terah 

in the land of his nativity, 

in Ur of the Chaldees.

Now, GOD promised Abram that of him will be a great nation.

And that the LORD will give Abram's seed the land.

Thing is, Sarai, Abram's wife, was barren.

Genesis 11:30

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30 But Sarai was barren; 

she had no child.

Humiliated, and impatient, at not being able to bear a child, Sarai takes matters in her hand.

And that's for the next post.

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