Abraham, formerly Abram, wifeSarahOriginal namesarai 。God gave the name "Abraham" which means "Father of many countries";His wife Sarai changed her name to Sarah, the mother of many countries.[1]
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Abram and his family originally lived inSu MeiOfUr(Ur or Ur, located at presentIraqTell Muqqayyar in the south).fatherHe pulledFromChaldeansThe ruling Urchadis may be located inTwo river basinSouth, but someIslamismandJudaismAccording to the relevant people ofturkey。
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Abram's family moved toHaran(onriver euphrates thisEuphrates RiverHis father Terah died in Haran.Then Abram and his wifesarai 、Lot(son of Haran, Abram's brother) and all the people who followed himCanaan Go to the ground.God asked Abram to "go to the land that I (God) will show you" and promised to "bless you (Abram) and call your name Great", so that Abram "will become a great country".Abram went to CanaanShowing Sword, and onMorley The place of the oak tree was inspired by God.JehovahHe said to Abram, "I will give this land to your descendants.".And Abram built there an altar for God.From there they moved to the mountains east of Bethel and pitched tents;To the west is Bertley, to the east is Ai.And there he built an altar and offered it to the Lord, and called on the name of the Lord.Since then, they have gradually moved to the south（dead seaNiger in the southwest).
Sarai and Pharaoh
Family migration
Abram sought refuge in Egypt because of famine. Afraid that the beauty of his wife Sarah would cause evil thoughts in Egypt and endanger his own safety, Abram asked the unknown Pharaoh andGerar King Abimelech called Sarah his sister (in fact, Abraham in Genesis 20:12 showed that they were half fathers,HebrewIn the original text, Abraham explained that Sarah was his half sister. In addition, the patriarch in Genesis observed the rules of engagement with half sister or half sister.Even so, Sarah was taken to the harem by Pharaoh and was ready to marry her. She treated Abram kindly and gave him many cattle, sheep, camels, donkeys, and maidservants,JehovahSo the plague was on Pharaoh and his family.Pharaoh summoned Abraham and asked him clearlySarahGive it back to him and tell him to leave.[2]Abram and Sarah left Egypt（IsaacSimilar things happened in Killar.
After Abraham left, he returned to Ai and stayed there for a period of time until there was a dispute between his shepherd and the shepherd of his nephew Lot. Because they had too many cattle and sheep and not enough grazing space, Abraham proposed to separate.[3]Abraham asked Lot to choose the land first, and Lot chose itJordan RiverHe himself moved to live in the oak of Mamre in Hebron, and built an altar to the Lord there.
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Production of Ishmael
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When Abraham was 75 years old, God promised Abraham to have a descendant and become a great country.When Abraham was 85 years old,SarahStill not pregnant, but also old, so she took her maidXia JiaHe gave Abraham as his concubine.Hagar gave birth to Abraham's first son, who was namedIshmael。[4]
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When Abraham was 99 years old, God appeared to him to make a covenant with him by circumcision, and told him that Sarah would give birth to a child for him.God made a covenant with Abraham and his descendants - an everlasting covenant... As a sign and reminder of this covenant, all men shouldCircumcision。God's covenant does not apply to Hagar's sonIshmaelDescendants, but only for the descendants of Sarah.Both of them thought it inconceivable that God would make Sarah pregnant.Abraham was 99 years old and Sarah was 89 years old.[1]When Abraham was 100 years old and Sarah was 90 years oldLegitimate sonIsaacBorn.[5]
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When God let Sarah miraculously give birth to IsaacWeaningAt the banquet,IshmaelMake fun of Isaac, letSarahUnhappy, she asked Abraham to drive the concubine away with his mother.Abraham prayed for the child's sadness. God decided to ask Abraham to follow Sarah's instructions and promised him blessingsIshmaelTheir descendants will also become great countries.[5]
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The next day, he left a bag for the poor mother and sonsolid foodHe returned to Canaan with a skin bag of drinking water.Xia JiaheIshmaelIn the wilderness of Bersheba, she lost her way, and the water in her skin bag was also drunk. When she was panicked and helpless, the angel of God encouraged her to continue to move forward, reiterating God's blessing on her and Ishmael. Ishmael's descendants must also become a great country.[5]
The angel of God let her see the well,Xia JiaAfter they filled the water for their son to drink, they went with their son to settle in the wilderness of Balaam.IshmaelAs an archer, Hagar married him an Egyptian wife.[5]
Isaac as a burnt offering
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One day, in order to test Abraham's faith, the LORD called to Abraham and ordered him to love his sonIsaacAs a sacrificeJehovah。Abraham, who believed in God, was willing to bear this cruel fate, and took his children and sacrificial tools toMount Moriah Go up and worship.The child didn't know that he was a sacrifice, so he asked his father why he didn't bring sacrifice?When the father and son arrived at the mountain, Abraham made all the preparations and was about to put his son on the altar and kill him with a knife, the angel of God called him from heaven, and the angel said:“You must not lay hands on the boy or do him any harm。I know that you fear God, because you have not left your son, your only son, to me. "Tell him this is God's training.This test is beyond the maximum limit of mortals.From then on, God appointed Abraham as the agent in the world, and laterJesus was bornIt also belongs to the younger generation of his 42nd generation.[6]
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At that time, in the land of Canaan, the eldest sonto sacrificeIt is very common.God uses thisForeign countriesHuman customs tested Abraham.The LORD did not like to sacrifice human beings, and in the future, he will prohibit Hebrews from doing this custom.[7]So he prepared a lamb for Abraham and his son on the spot of sacrifice instead of Isaac as a burnt offering.[8]
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Abraham looked up at the stars
Abraham moved to the Negev and settled in Kadesh andShur middleGerar 。Abraham called Sarah his sister.King of Gerar-AbimelechThey sent men to marry Sarah.[5]
As inEgyptAs it happened, the LORD intervened and warned Abimelech not to defile Sarah's innocence.Abimelech summoned Abraham to rebuke him, gave him a thousand silver as a gift, and allowed them to live.[5]
When Abimelech saw that God had taken care of Abraham, he made a covenant with him to make sure that Abraham would be kind to his sons and his people, just as he had been kind to Abraham.Abraham agreed.[5]
Once upon a time, Abraham dug a well here and was seized by Abimelech's servants;Abimelech returned the well to Abraham, and Abraham called the place where they had made a covenant with each other Beersheba.[5]
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Buy land to bury his wife
Sarah died at the age of 127, and Abraham was deeply distressed.He asked Ephron, the son of ZoharTiantouGo thereMabira CaveSell it to him as a family burial place.So he buried Sarah there.[9]
Abraham continued
And Abraham took another wife, whose name wasKeturah 。Keturah bore him six sons.He gave everything together to Isaac.Abraham distributed the wealth to the sons of his concubines, and sent them away from Isaac to the east while he was still alive.[10]
Of the sons of Keturah,MidianShe is the descendant of Abraham.
Abraham died
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Abraham died at the age of 175. His sons Isaac andIshmaelHe buried him in the land he had bought, in the cave of Machpelah, with his wife Sarah.
Muslim Perspective
Three world religions with Abraham as their ancestor:Judaism, Christianity, Islam (arranged by the time of appearance).Three religionsThe true God of common belief in Judaism originated fromMiddle EastDesert areas, toHebrew BibleBased onJerusalemIt is a holy place.The three religions believe that their classics are God's words, and obedience to their classics is to follow the right path.
Islam believes that the classics of Judaism and Christianity have been tampered with and distorted by people, and God has sent prophetsMohammedAnd revealed the Koran to him, and deleted those artificial and tampered things in the previous classics.Islamic appellationAbrahamic religions Our followers are "people of classics".
Muslims' attitude towards Abraham's concubine Ishmael and his motherXia JiaThe comments of are as follows:
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After Abraham arrived in Canaan, he married Hagar, an Egyptian girl, as his concubine during a long trip to Egypt.The second wife of the maid gave birth to his first son, namedIshmael。But when God let Sarah miraculously give birth to Isaac, maybe becauseRight of inheritanceBecause of this, the contradiction between wives and concubines cannot be reconciled.Perhaps for the sake of national purity, Abraham sent Hagar, a foreign wife, and his young son to the east of his original hometownSaudi ArabiaOfMeccaNearby.He left a bag of dry food and a skin bag of drinking water for the poor mother and son, and then returned to Canaan.At that time, young Ishmael pedaled out a lifesaving spring in the abandoned place, which became the legend of the origin of the world-famous Mecca holy spring "Zam Spring".
Ishmael is the ancestor of the Arabs, and Hagar is Abraham's flat wife, not his concubine.
The scripture records that he was born in Wuer, the lower reaches of the two rivers, and later led the tribe to crossArabian DesertArrival atPalestineThe whole tribe canMultiply。
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Abraham and Isaac
Abraham's nephew Lot moved toJordanPlainSodom When living in the city, the king of Sodom united with four kings aroundMesopotamian PlainKing of Kedarlaoma.Ji Dalao Ma also joined with four other kings to fight for thisDependent countrySo a war broke out between four kings and five kings.Chittaguma successfully suppressed the rebellion and brought the people and property of Sodom back to his country.When Abraham heard that the messenger said that his nephew Lot had also been taken captive, he took 318 servants to pursue himDamascusHe saved Lot and his property.[11]
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Genesis 22
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After these things, God wanted to test Abraham and called to him, "Abraham," and he said, "Here I am.".
God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and goMoriah Go to the earth and offer him on the mountain I will show youburnt sacrifice。
And God said, Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moria, and offer him as a burnt offering on the mountain I will show you.
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off.
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Abraham said to his servant, "Wait here with the donkey. I will go there with the boy to worship and then come back to you.
Abraham put the wood of the burnt offering on his son Isaac, and took the fire and the knife in his hand. So they went together.
Isaac said to his father Abraham, "Father.And Abraham said, Here am I, my son.And Isaac said, Behold, there is fire and wood, but where is the lamb of the burnt offering.
Abraham said, "My son, God will prepare a lamb for a burnt offering himself." So they went together.
When they came to the place God had indicated, Abraham built an altar there, put the wood in place, bound his son Isaac, and put it on the wood on the altar.
So Abraham stretched out his hand and took the sword to kill his son.
The angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, "Abraham, Abraham," and he said, "Here I am.".
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The angel said to him, "Do not lay hands on the boy or harm him at all. I know that you fear God, because you did not leave your son, your only son, from me.".
Abraham looked up and saw oneRamHis horns were buckled in a thick young tree, and Abraham took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Elik, and to this day it is said, On the mountain of Jehovah there will be provision.
22.15 The angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven, saying
And I swore by myself, saying, The Lord said, Since you have done this and have not left your son, your only son
22.17 As for blessing, I will bless you greatly, and as for descendants, I will make your descendants multiply, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore, and your descendants will have the gates of your enemies
And all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your descendants, because you have obeyed my voice
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So Abraham returned to his servants, and they got up together and went to Beersheba, and Abraham stayed in Beersheba.
