An Overview of Genesis Chapters 12-20

1. What was the first instruction given from God to Abram?

2. What promise was made to Abram if he followed that first instruction?

3. How much thinking did Abram have to do before following this instruction?

4. What huge error did Abram make when they came to Egypt (wasn’t Sarai his sister?)?

5. What did the Lord step in and do?

6. Why would the Lord step in at this point to “fix” Abram’s error?

7. Who was Lot?

8. Where did Abram and Lot go after departing from Egypt?

9. What strife began and what was the solution?

10. Why did Lot make his decision?

11. Did Lot make a good decision?

12. What did Abram first do when he came to the plain of Mamre?

13. What happened to Lot when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled?

14. What did Abram do to help Lot?

15. Who was Melchizedek?

16. What was Abram’s answer to the king of Sodom who offered Abram to take the goods?

17. What was God’s answer to this question “what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless”?

18. What did Abram see would happen to his people?

19. What was Sarai’s solution to not being able to bear children?

20. How much did Sarai like the result of her suggestion?

21. What did the angel of the Lord say to Hagar?

22. Who was Ishmael?

23. When does God change the names of Abram and Sarai?

24. Why did He decide to change their names?

25. What was Abraham’s reaction when he found out Sarah would have a child?

26. How old was Abraham and Sarah at the time God said they would have a child?

27. Who chose the name of Abraham and Sarah’s son?

28. When and why did circumcision begin?

29. Who did Sarah hear talking to Abraham about her bearing a child and what was her reaction?

30. Did Sarah admit what she did when hearing that she would bear a child at an old age?

31. Why did God share with Abraham what He was going to do to Sodom and Gomorrah?

32. What was Abraham’s reaction to hearing about Sodom and Gomorrah’s destruction?

33. What did the men of Sodom try to do to the angels that came there?

34. What did the angels do to protect themselves, Lot, and his household?

35. What did the angels tell Lot to do in leaving Sodom and Gomorrah?

36. What happened as the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire?

37. What did Lot’s daughters do to him?

38. What did Abraham tell Abimelech?

39. Isn’t it amazing that even with the faith of Abraham, he didn’t learn from what happened in Egypt?

40. Why did Abraham lie?

41. What did the Lord do because of Abraham and Sarah’s lie? Again, why would he intervene here?

42. What did God do when Abraham prayed to God?

Having A Basic Understanding of Some Old Testament Truths
Part 2 – From Abram to Isaac (Genesis 12-20)

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