its for my histiry project too=]]
i just want a short version.=)
2007-09-19 14:16:55 · 6 answers · asked by me! 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God promised Abraham that He would make a great nation out of him. Abraham, who was 75 years old and childless (Genesis 12:4), was promised many descendants. This promise is amplified in Genesis 17:6 where God promised that nations and kings would descend from the aged patriarch. This promise (which is expanded in the Davidic Covenant of 2 Samuel 7:12–16) would eventuate in the Davidic throne with Messiah’s kingdom rule over the Hebrew people.
2007-09-19 14:37:07 · answer #1 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abraham was the first to be born of the 5th Age (5th Seal), he was born in the year 1680 BC. Abraham was the father of Ishmael and Isaac. Ishmael founded the 12 Arab Nations and Isaac Father of Jacob founded the 12 Hebrew Nations.
2007-09-19 14:34:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abraham was the first man to believe in one god. His father, Teruah was a seller of idols. Abraham saw that these idols couldn't answer prayers, that they couldn't have made the world and everything in it, so he smashed all the idols when his father left him in charge of the shop. He left his home and set out on the path the God led him. He was married to Sara, was the father of Ishmael by Sara's maid and then God gave Sara and he a son of their own, Issac, when Sara was 90 years old. Issac was the father of Jacob and Essau, the twins. Jacob was renamed Israel by God after wrestling with an angel. Jacob went on to have 12 sons who became the 12 tribes of Israel.
2007-09-19 15:02:50 · answer #3 · answered by nanny411 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a guy
a Godly man (or it is creditted to him anyway)
the first Jew (religion)
central ancestor of the semetic lines (Jews and Arabs)
father to Ishmael and Isaac
blessed of God, may have had a Christophony
2007-09-19 14:22:28 · answer #4 · answered by Hey, Ray 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abraham was a father of many, and a servant of God.
2007-09-19 14:21:54 · answer #5 · answered by Son of David 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's one of the guys sort of mentioned now and then in the bible.
2007-09-19 14:29:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋