Job: The impact of mockers
Eliphaz’s and Bildad’s second speeches, and Job’s response: Job 15–18 After listening to the type of judgement seen on social …
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Job: the social media pile-on isn’t new
Job’s response to Bildad and Zophar: Job 12–14 The mob justice you see on social media isn’t new. Job experienced …
Job wishes for a short life
Bildad and Zophar’s first speeches: Job 8–11 The lack of empathy from Job’s friends is a consistent themes throughout Job. …
Eliphaz and friends fail
Eliphaz and the response from Job: Job 4–7 After Eliphaz’s advice to talk to God about his problems, Job started …
Job, an account of grief and loss
Job’s losses and his first response: Job 1–3 The book of Job is known for its very human depiction of …
Still living in Canaan as a foreigner
Joseph and his brothers: Genesis 37–50 If you’re keeping track of how long Abraham and his descendants lived as foreigners in Canaan, …
How many wives did Esau have?
Esau’s descendents: Genesis 36 and parts of Chronicles There are several accounts of Esau’s choice of wives. One has him taking three wives …
Schechem
Jacob meets Esau after 20 years away, moves to Schechem, then flees to Bethel: Genesis 32–35 Schechem is now an …
Should we even try divination?
Jacob’s time with Laban: Genesis 30–31 Laban never quite gave the impression that he really knew God. It’s not just …
Now Esau works it out: he shouldn’t have married a Hittite
Esau marries again, Jacob goes to Paddan-Haran, works for Laban, marries Rachel and Leah, and has 11 of his sons …
Birthrights for sale: cheap!
Two stories Esau/Jacob, Abimilech/Isaac: Genesis 25–28 Now, I like lentils as much as the next person, and probably more, but …
The second wife started the Midianites
A list of Abraham’s sons (and their sons): Genesis 25 and parts of Chronicles Abraham remarried after Sarah died, giving him …
How real was the promise
Abraham sends Hagar and Ishmael away, makes a treaty with Abimelech, almost sacrifices Isaac, finds him a wife after he …
A promise fulfilled
God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot lives with his daughters, Abraham lies to Abimelech about Sarah, and Isaac is born: …
A four-century wait for a promise
Promises from God to Abraham: Genesis 15–17 God was promising Abraham the world, or at least a large chunk of the …
Sodom and sin: looks can’t predict the long-term outcome
The Tower of Babel; Abram and his family moves around the Middle East, with Lot eventually settling in Sodom, only to …
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