CHAPTER It. 591 God ? A. God visited him, and conversed with him as a friend several times in a visible manner, and changed his name from Abram to Abraham ; Gen. xv. aad xvii. and xviii. James ii. 23. 54. Q. What is written concerning Sarah, Abraham's Wife? A. She believed God's promise, and had a son at ninety years old, and her name also was changed from Sarai to Sarah ; Gen. xvii. 15, 17. Heb. xi. 11. Note, Some learned men have supposed that the addition of the Hebrew letter H to the names of Abraham and Sarai, signifies a new relation to God whose name is Jah : Others think it to be a part of the word Hamon, which signifies a multitude, because God promised many nations to spring from them when he changed their names ; Gen. xvii. 5, 16. 55. Q. What is recorded concerning Isaac their son ? A. He feared the God of his father Abraham, he had frequent visi- ons of God, and went out into the fields to meditate or pray, and offered sacrifices to God ; Gen. xxiv. 63. and xxvi. 2, 24, 25. 56. Q. Who was Isaac's wife ? A. His father Abraham sent afar,' and took a wife for him, even Rebecca, out of his own family in Mesopotamia, because he was unwilling he should marry among the wicked Canaanites whom God had doomed to destruction ; Gen. xxiv. 3 4, 51-59. 57. Q. What children had Isaac ? A. Two sons, Esau and Jacob ; Gen. xxv. 25, 26. SECT. II1.-Of Esau and Jacob, and their Posterity. 58. Q. What was Esau ? A. He was Isaac's eldest son; bred up to hunting rather than husbandry, who sold his birth- right 4o his brother for a mess of pottage when he was faint wit's hunting ; Gen. xxv. 31, 33. 59. Q. Who was Jacob ? A. The youngest son of Isaac, who by his mother's contrivance obtained his father's blessing, though not in a right way ; Gen. xxviii. 27. 60. Q. By what treachery did he obtain the blessing ? A. When his father Isaac was old and his eyes dim, by order of his mother he put on Esau's clothes, and told his father he was Esau his eldest son ; Gen. xxvii. 15-19. 61. Q. How did Esau take this ? A. Esau threatened to kill him, and therefore he left his father's house ; Gen. xxvii. 41, 43. 62. Q. Whither did Jacob go ? A. To Laban the Syrian, who was his mother's brother ; Gen. xxviii. 2, 5. 63. Q. What did he meet with in going thither ? A. He lay down to sleep on a stone at Bethel, and had a holy dream of God, and of angels there ascending and descending between heaven and earth ; Gen. xxviii. 12, 13, 14. 61. Q. What did he do in Laban's house ? A. He kept his uncle Laban's cattle, and he married his two daughters Rachel and Leah; Gen. xxix. 15 -30.
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