Q. To what country did he come? Q. What promise did the Lord make him here? Q. Was Abraham prospered in Canaan? A. He was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. Chap. xiii, 2. Q. Why did he separate from his nephew Lot? A. Their flocks and herds were so large that they could not dwell together. Chap. xiii, 5, 6. Q. Where did Lot choose to go? A. To the plain of Jordan, near to the city of Sodom. Chap. xiii, 10, 11. Q. Why did he prefer dwelling here? A. Because the plain was well watered and fruitful, as the garden of the Lord. Q. What happened to him while residing here? A. He was carried away captive, with the inhabitants of the plain, by five eastern kings and their armies. Chap. xiv, 12. Q. Who rescued him? A. His uncle, Abraham. Chap. xiv, 13-16. Q. What was the character of the inhabitants of the cities of the plain? A. They had become awfully wicked, and their sin was very grievous unto the Lord. Chap. viii, 20. hat did he determine to do? o destroy them. ho were sent to warn Lot? Two angels. Chap. xix, 1. الا Q. What did they command Lot and his family to do? A. His wife and two daughters. Chap. xix, 16. A. She disobeyed the command of God by looking back upon Sodom, and became a pillar of salt. Chap. xix, 26. Q. Where did Lot and his daughters go? Q. What then happened? A. The Lord rained brimstone and fire out of heaven upon the plain. Chap. xix, 24. Q. What cities were destroyed? A. Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim. Q. What now covers the plain where those cities stood? Question. What was the name of Abraham's oldest son? Q. Where did he dwell? A. In the wilderness of Paran. Chap. xxi, 21. Q. Who are his descendants? A. The wandering Arabs. Q. What did the Lord say of him and his descendants? as this always been the character of the Arab? ho was Abraham's son of promise? Q. How old was Abraham at his birth? 4. One hundred years old. Chap. xxi, 5. Q. How did the Lord try the obedience and faith of Abraham? *་ 4. He commanded him to take his son Isaac, and to offer him as a burnt-offering upon Mount Moriah. Chap. xxii, 2. Q. Did Abraham obey? A. He arose early in the morning, took his son Isaac, and went to the place of which God had told him. Chap. xxii, 3. DBY SIT TRITT When they reached the place, what question did Isaac ask his father? 4. Where is the lamb for a burnt-offering? Chap. xxii, 7.a de Q. What did Abraham answer? A. My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt-offering. Chap. xxii, 8. Q. What did Abraham then do? A. He built an altar, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. Chap. xxii, 9. Q. Did he proceed any further? A. He did. He stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. Chap. xxii, 10. Q. Did he slay him? A. He did not; for an angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven. Chap. xxii, 11. Q. What did he say? A. Lay not thine hand upon the lad. Chap ххії, 12. Q. What did he say Abraham had shown A. That he feared God, seeing that he had not withheld his only son. Q. What did Abraham now behold? A. A ram caught in a thicket by his horns. Chap. xxii, 13. Q. What did he do with him? A. He took him, and offered him for a burntoffering in the stead of his son. Q. What did he call the name of the place? Q. What blessing did God pronounce upon Abraham on account of his obedience? A. He promised to multiply his seed as the stars of the heaven, and that in his seed all the nations of the earth should be blessed. Chap. xxii, 17, 18. Q. Who was the seed referred to in this blessing? A. Jesus Christ, who was a son of Abraham, according to the flesh. Q. How old was Sarah when she died? A. One hundred and twenty-seven years old. Chap. xxiii, 1. |