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Abram's Lie - Genesis 12:6-13

An exposition of Genesis 12:6-13. What happened at Shechem and Bethel that prepared Abram for the trial of severe famine? How does Abram's experience practically help you in times of trial? Why did he go to Egypt? Did he lie about Sarai? Is lying always wrong? Explain. Where did Abram go after Egypt?

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Abram's Lie - Genesis 12:6-13

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  1. An inductive, expositional study taught by Harry Morgan

  2. For those of you online post your comments or questions in the “comment section” on your screen. As time affords they may be read to the class.

  3. Chapters 1-11 4 Events • Creation (1-2) • Fall (3-5) • Flood (6-9) • Nations (10-11) Chapters 12-50 4 People • Abraham (12-24) • Isaac (25-26) • Jacob (27-36) • Joseph (37-50)

  4. Where did Abram go after he left Haran? Genesis 12:6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem… Shechem = "shoulder blade" located between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim.

  5. What other significant events occurred at Shechem? 1. The blessing and cursing of the covenant (cf. Deut. 11:29-30; Josh. 8:30-35) 2. The Covenant renewal service (cf. Josh. 24) 3. The meeting between Rehoboam (Solomon's son) and Jeroboam (northern labor leader) after Solomon's death, which resulted in a split between Judah and Israel (922 b.c.).

  6. What does Shechem look like today?

  7. What was unusual about Shechem? Genesis 12:6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land. • terebinth = “big tree” • Moreh = “teacher” Nablus the oak; be lasting, strong א ֵ ל וֹ ן

  8. What two things happened to Abram at Shechem? Genesis 12:7 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” This is the first recorded appearance of the LORD to a patriarch (cf. 17:1; 18:1; 26:2, 24; 35:9; 48:3)

  9. What additional promise was given to Abram? Genesis 12:7 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

  10. What was Abram’s response? Why?

  11. Where did Abram go from there? Genesis 12:8 And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; Bethel = “house of God” Ai = “heap of stones”

  12. Where did Abram do there? Why? Genesis 12:8 And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.

  13. How many altars did Abram build in Genesis 12 and where did he build them? Ø At the Oak at Moreh or Shechem (7) Ø In the hill country east of Bethel (8)

  14. What did Abram do at these altars? Genesis 12:7–8 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him. 8And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.

  15. Where is Bethel today? .Ai

  16. Ramallah Ramallah = God’s Mountain Al-Bireh was once a separate village

  17. What unusual topography do you observe of this mountain? Mountain (Jebel et-Tawil) east of el-Bireh (Bethel).

  18. What is the meaning of the word Negev? Genesis 12:9 So Abram journeyed, going on still toward the Negev.

  19. Why did Abram journey to the Negev? Genesis 12:10 Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was severe in the land.

  20. Why did you think God permitted a famine in the land of promise? Genesis 12:10 Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was severe in the land. The word for there was is yehi which can also be rendered and he was becoming. The word for famine is ra’av which is spelled Resh – prideful man, Ayin – greed, Beth – feelings of spiritual superiority

  21. How are you responding to the famines in your life?

  22. What were Abram’s options?

  23. Did Abram ask Sarai to lie? Genesis 12:11-13 And it came to pass, when he was close to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “Indeed I know that you are a woman of beautiful countenance. 12 Therefore it will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live. 13Please say you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that I may live because of you.”

  24. Was Sarai Abram’s sister? Genesis 20:12 But indeed she is truly my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. If Sarai was Abram’s sister then did he lie?

  25. What are possible motivations for lying? John 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. • to simply defraud • to shield one's exposure • to further one's supposed interests • out of spite or revenge • because they're afraid • because they're boastfully conceited

  26. So was Abram wrong to ask Sarai to lie and was Sarai wrong to obey him? Ø Jewish midwives of Exodus lied to Pharaoh to protect Jewish children Ø Rahab lied to conceal the Jewish spies Ø David lied to a priest as he was leaving Israel

  27. What's more surprising to you, that Sarai was so beautiful at age 65, or that Sarai agreed to her husband's request?

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