 Questions and Answers from Genesis 26 to 50 |
| Question | Answer |
| Q. Isaac had the same famine experience that his father, Abraham, did. How was his experience with it different than his father's? | A. Genesis 26:2 = God warned him not to go to Egypt; reminded Isaac of His promise to Abraham. Isaac obeyed, but still, Rebekah was lied about when questioned (26:6). Abimelech was decieved again, but God showed him the truth this time (v.8). Rebekah had grown children and she was still very beautiful! |
| Q. Who was Esau's wives' ancestors? | A. Genesis 26:34 = The Hittites, descendants of Ham, Noah's shamed and accursed son. |
| Q. Did daughters-in-law do crazy-making in the Old Testament? | A. Genesis 26:34-35 = Yes. Esau's wives made Isaac and Rebekah crazy! |
| Q. Did they learn a lesson from them? | A. Genesis 28:1-2: Yes. Isaac sent Jacob away to Laban's house to find a bride for himself, warning him to stay away from "these Canaanite women." |
| Q. Who was Laban? | A. Gen. = Rebekah's brother. Their father was Nahor, Abraham's brother. |
| Q. Who were Ishmael's ancestors? | A. Genesis Gen. = Both Jacob and Esau. |
| Q. Did God extend His covenant to any of Isaac's children? | A. Genesis 28:13 = Yes. To Jacob. |
| Q. Did Esau at least try to appease his father for marrying the Hittite/Canaanite women? | A. Genesis 28:9 = Yes. He married his cousin, Mahalath, who was Ishmael's daughter; his cousin. |
| Q. What was one purpose God chose to make a woman fruitful bearing children? | A. Genesis 29:1 = If they were unloved by their husbands, as Leah was here, unloved by Jacob. |
| Q. How did Leah respond to her pregnancy? | A. Genesis 29:35 = She was joyful and began to praise God. |
| Q. Who was her 4th born son? | A. Genesis 29:35 = Judah, in the bloodline of Jesus. |
| Q. Who were Leah's other sons? | A. Genesis 29:32 = Reuben, Simeon (who was murderous), Livi (also murderous), and Judah. |
| Q. How did Rachel respond to her own barrenness? | A. Genesis 30:1 = She became jealous of Leah. She demanded that Jacob give her children and he told her he was helpless to make life. |
| Q. Was Rachel content with that answer? | A. Genesis 30:3 = No. She gave him Bilhah, her maid, to lay with and have children. |
| Q. Did Bilhah have children? | A. Genesis 30:4 = Yes. She had Dan, whom Rachel named. Then she had Naphtali, whom she also named. |
| Q. How did Leah react to Rachel's adopted sons? | A. Genesis 30:9 = Leah couldn't be content. Determined to have more children than her sister because Jacob loved only her, she gave her maid, Zilpah, to Jacob to lay with and have children. |
| Q. Did Zilpah bear children? | A. Genesis 30:10-11 = Yes. Leah named the first Gad and the second Asher. |
| Q. Was there animosity in the love triangle between Leah, Rachel and Jacob? | A. Genesis 30:15 = Yes! Leah was jealous of Rachel because of Jacob's withholding affection. (She couldn't understand why Jacob couldn't love her, forgetting that she got him by deception and not in love -- and that he pursued Rachel in spite of it.) |
| Q. Was Jacob that cold toward Leah? | A. Genesis 30:16 = Yes. She paid Rachel to sleep with him one time! |
| Q. Did Leah have more children? | A. Genesis 30:17-18 = Yes. That night, she concieved Issachar. |
| Q. Who else did Leah give birth to? | A. Genesis 30:19-20 = Zebulun and Dinah. |
| Q. What about Rachel? | A. Genesis 30 = After all these children were given to Leah, God remembered Rachel and she concieved. |
| Q. Who was Rachel's son? | A. Genesis 30:23-24 = Joseph. |
| Q. What endeared Jacob to God? | A. Genesis 32:28 = Jacob had a tough life, relationship-wise. Soime of it he brought on himself (with Esau), and the rest consisted of working for nothing for a wife he couldn't love; knowing his brother wanted to kill him, even 20 years later. Yet Jacob never turned his back on God. |
| Q. Did God point that out? | A. Genesis 32:28 = Yes. God blessed him for enduring it all, naming him Israel, who struggles with God and man, but has not yet won. |
| Q. Did Jacob own land? | A. Genesis 32:19 = Yes. He bought land at Shechem in Canaan, called it Succoth (meaning 'shelter'), for 100 pieces of silver. Bought it from Hamar, Shechem's father. (These were the descendants of Ham.) |
| Q. What happened there? | A. Genesis 34:1-2 = Shechem raped Dinah, Leah's only daughter, then demanded her hand in marriage. |
| Q. What did Hamor, his father, do about the rape? | A. Genesis 34:8 = He pled with Jacob for Dinah to be his son's wife. He acknowledged no sin! |
| Q. How did Dinah's brothers react? | A. Genesis 34:13 = Reuben and Levi decieved them into thinking that they would let their sister marry Shechem under the condition that every male in their town be circumsized. |
| Q. What was their real intention? | A. Genesis 34:25 = To wait until the 3rd day after circumcision, when they were weakest, and murder them all. They did so and even plundered the city, taking wives and children too. |
| Q. How did Jacob react to what they had done? | A. Genesis 34:30 = In disgust. In fear of Ham's descendants' retaliation. |
| Q. What did Jacob do? | A. Genesis 35:1 = God spoke to him! Told him exactly what to do. |
| Q. What were God's instructions? | A. Genesis 35:2 = To go to Bethel, settle there, build an altar to God. |
| Q. What had crept into Jacob's household? | A. Genesis 35:2 = Household idols. His family was straying. |
| Q. Did God react to that? | A. Genesis 35 = No. |
| Q. What did God do for Jacob's family instead? | A. Genesis 35:5 = He put the fear of God in the descendants of Ham so that they did not retaliate. |
| Q. Did God confirm His promise to Jacob? | A. Genesis 35:11 = Yes. Abraham and Isaac's promise grew. "Make many nations, kings would be his descendants." At this time, God named Jacob "Israel." |
| Q. Did Jacob cease to have trouble in his life after that? | A. Genesis 35:16 = No. Rachel died delivering Benjamin and Isaac died around the same time too. |
| Q. Did Jacob remarry? | A. Genesis 35 = No. |
| Q. How long did Isaac live? | A. Genesis 35:27 = 180 years. |
| Q. Who buried Isaac? | A. Genesis 35:29 = Jacob and Esau buried their father in Hebron, beside Abraham and Sarah. |
| Q. Who were the descendants of Esau? | A. Genesis 36 = Esau married into Ham's family. His wives were Adah and Oholibamah. He also married into Shem's family (his father's family). His wife was Basemath. |
| Q. Who came out of Esau's line? | A. Genesis 36 = The Arab nations. i.e., a mixture of Shem and Ham's descendants. Remember, their father was Noah. |
| Q. What did Reuben do? (He was Leah's eldest son). | A. Genesis 35:22 = He slept with Bilhah, Jacob's concubine. |
| Q. In the plot to rid themselves of Joseph, did Judah participate with his brothers? | A. Genesis 37:26 = He wanted Joseph gone, but not dead. He thought of selling him to the Ishmaelite traders as a slave. |
| Q. And Reuben? | A. Genesis 37:21-22 = He didn't want Joseph dead either. Reuben planned to rescue Joseph later, in secret. It didn't work out, but he said nothing. |
| Q. What happened to Judah? | A. Genesis 38 = He moved away, married, had 3 sons. Their names were Er, Onan and Shelah. |
| Q. Judah arranged for Er to marry Tamar. What happened instead? | A. Genesis 38:7 = God took Er's life because he was evil. |
| Q. So what happened to Tamar? | A. Genesis 38:8 = By law, Tamar would bear a son by the next of kin to carry on Er's name. |
| Q. Did that happen? | A. Genesis 38:9 = Onan spilled his seed on the ground so it would not happen. |
| Q. What did God do? | A. Genesis 38:10 = He took Onan's life too. |
| Q. What did Judah then do? | A. Genesis 38:11 = He told Tamar not to marry again, but to wait until Shelah grew up and marry him then. |
| Q. Did Judah lie to her? | A. Genesis 38:11 = Yes. He was afraid Shelah would die too. No way would he be her husband! |
| Q. Did Tamar find out? | A. Genesis 38:14 = She figured it out years later. |
| Q. What did she do about it? | A. Genesis 38 = It was after Judah's wife had died. Tamar dressed up as a prostitute, veiling her face, and Judah approached her, not knowing who she was. |
| Q. What happened? | A. Genesis 38:17-30 = Judah paid Tamar with his identification seal, his cord and his walking stick. |
| Q. What happened next? | A. Genesis 38:18-30 = She had twins, Perez and Zerah, who fought to be born first. But Judah never slept with Tamar, his own daughter-in-law, again. Perez was Jesus' ancestor! |
| Q. Does God bless non-believers for our sake? | A. Genesis 39:5 = Yes. From the day Joseph was put in charge of Potiphar's household affairs, God began blessing Potiphar -- for Joseph's sake. |
| Q. Who was Potiphar? | A. Genesis 39 = Captain of the guard. |
| Q. Did Joseph have any relationship problems while in Potiphar's house? | A. Genesis 39:7 = Yes. Potiphar's wife began to desire him. |
| Q. What did Joseph do? | A. Genesis 39:8 = He refused her. To him it was a sin against God. |
| Q. Did she back off? | A. Genesis 39:10 = No. She pressured him daily. |
| Q. Did Joseph win? | A. Genesis 39:11 = No. She accused him of rape. He went to jail. |
| Q. What happened in jail? | A. Genesis 39:21 = God blessed Joseph there too! |
| Q. Whose dreams did Joseph interpret while in jail? | A. Genesis 40:1 = The chief baker and chief cupbearer. |
| Q. What did it lead to? | A. Genesis 41:9 = The cupbearer remembered to tell Pharaoh of Joseph's interpretation gift. |
| Q. What jogged his memory? | A. Genesis 41:1 = Pharaoh's disturbing dream. |
| Q. When did Joseph become 2nd only to Pharaoh? | A. Genesis 41:38 = Upon interpreting his dream -- he would oversee the storing-food-for-the-coming-famine work. |
| Q. Did Pharaoh do anything else for Joseph? | A. Genesis 41:45 = He renamed Joseph Zaphenathpaneah and gave him a wife named Asenath. |
| Q. Who was Asenath? | A. Genesis 41:45 = Daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis. |
| Q. How old was Joseph when he took over the entire land of Egypt? | A. Genesis 41:46 = 30 years old. |
| Q. Did Joseph and Asenath have children? | A. Genesis 41:50 = Yes. Two sons -- Manasseh and Ephraim. |
| Q. Did Jacob adopt children? | A. Genesis 48:5 = Yes. He adopted Joseph's children. |
| Q. What happened when Jacob blessed them? | A. Genesis 48:19 = Jacob declared that the younger one would be greater. |
| Q. Are there any more prophesies of Jesus in the book of Genesis? | A. Genesis 49:8-12 = Yes! Jacob blessed his sons, prophesying even of Jesus. |
| Q. When was Jesus first called "Shepherd" and "Rock"? | A. Genesis 49:24 = Jacob called his Lord by these names. |
| Q. Did Joseph believe in God's sovreignty in his sufferings? | A. Genesis 50:19-21 = Yes. He believed he was chosen to save many lives. |
| Q. How long did Joseph live? | A. Genesis 50:22 = 110 years. |
| Q. Joseph wished to be buried in Canaan in the family burial tomb. Did his family honor his request? | A. Genesis 50:26 = No. They embalmed him and his body was placed in a coffin in Egypt. |
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