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165 articles found for “Abraham's servant”

• Eliezer (Servant of Abraham)

  [People]

  Eliezer is the man of Damascus whom Abraham, while still childless, names as his heir in Genesis 15. He is commonly identified with Abraham's eldest servant, who in Genesis 24 goes to find a wife for Isaac.

• Mesopotamia

  [Bible]

  Mesopotamia is a biblical place name for the region between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers and the homeland of Abraham's family. In the Old Testament it refers mainly to the northern Aramean territory around Haran.

• Rebekah

  [People]

  Rebekah is the wife of Isaac in the Book of Genesis and the mother of the twin brothers Esau and Jacob. A granddaughter of Nahor, Abraham's brother, she is the daughter of Bethuel and the sister of Laban.

• Bethuel

  [People]

  Bethuel is a figure in the Book of Genesis. He was the son of Nahor, Abraham's brother, and Nahor's wife Milcah, and the father of Laban and of Rebekah, the wife of Isaac.

• Mesopotamia

  [Bible]

  Mesopotamia is the region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and the homeland of Abraham. It is mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments.

• Laban

  [People]

  Laban was an Aramean of Haran who appears in the book of Genesis. The brother of Rebekah, the uncle of Jacob, and the father of Leah and Rachel, he kept Jacob in his household for twenty years.

• Genesis 15:6

  [Bible Verses]

  Genesis 15:6 reads, "And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness." Paul cited the verse as a central basis for the doctrine of justification by faith, and the Epistle of James also quotes it, placing it at the center of debates over the relationship between faith and works.

• Genesis 24

  [Bible]

  Genesis 24 recounts how Abraham sends his aged servant to his kindred in his homeland to find a wife for his son Isaac, and how the servant meets Rebekah at a well and brings her back to marry Isaac.

• Isaiah 51

  [Bible]

  Isaiah 51 recalls God's calling of Abraham and the Exodus as it promises the restoration of Zion. It also proclaims to Jerusalem, which has drunk the cup of wrath, that God will take that cup from her hand and give it to her enemies.

• Eliezer

  [People]

  Eliezer was the second son of Moses and Zipporah. His name is understood to mean "my God is help." Several people in the Bible bear the same name, and Eliezer the servant of Abraham is especially well known.

• Oath

  [Bible]

  An oath is an act in which God, or a being greater than oneself, is invoked as a witness to guarantee that one's words are true or that one will keep a promise. The Old Testament forbids swearing falsely, and in the Sermon on the Mount Jesus taught, "Swear not at all."

• Genesis 14:18-20

  [Bible Verses]

  Genesis 14:18-20 is the passage in which Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest of the most high God, blesses Abram on his return from battle, and Abram gives him a tenth. It is frequently cited in connection with the Epistle to the Hebrews' reading of Melchizedek as a type of Christ and in discussions of tithing.

• Abraham's Bosom

  [Bible]

  Abraham's bosom is the expression used for the place to which the beggar Lazarus was carried after his death in Jesus' account of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:22-23). It is commonly understood to denote the rest and comfort the righteous enjoy after death.

• Seed of Abraham

  [Bible]

  The seed of Abraham is a biblical term for the descendants God promised to Abraham. In the Old Testament it refers to the people of Israel, descended through Isaac and Jacob. In the New Testament its meaning broadens to include Christ and those who believe in Christ.

• Lot's Wife

  [People]

  Lot's wife, the wife of Abraham's nephew Lot, appears in Genesis 19. During the destruction of Sodom she disregarded the angels' warning, looked back, and became a pillar of salt. The Bible does not record her name.

• Abrahamic Covenant

  [Bible]

  The Abrahamic covenant is the covenant in which God promised Abraham and his descendants a great nation, land, and blessing, and declared that all the families of the earth would be blessed through him. It appears in Genesis 12–22.

• Nahor

  [People]

  Nahor is the name of two members of Abraham's family in the Book of Genesis: Abraham's grandfather (the father of Terah) and Abraham's brother (the son of Terah).

• Genesis 18

  [Bible]

  Genesis 18 recounts Abraham's hospitality to three visitors at Mamre, where Sarah again hears the promise that she will bear a son. The chapter continues with Abraham interceding with the LORD before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, asking whether the cities would be spared for fifty righteous people, and then for fewer, down to ten.

• Hagar and Ishmael

  [People]

  Hagar was Sarah's Egyptian maidservant who bore Abraham his son Ishmael, Abraham's firstborn. Their story appears in Genesis 16, 21, and 25, and Paul uses the account allegorically in Galatians 4.

• Haran

  [Bible]

  Haran was a city in northern Mesopotamia where Abraham's family stayed after leaving Ur of the Chaldees, and where Jacob spent twenty years in the household of his uncle Laban.