i think it's fitting and timely to come back to comment on abraham and his covenant relationship with God and just recount the blessing of his life as we are reading about his last days. new american standard version says in v 8 of chapter 25, "abraham breathed his last and died in a ripe old age, an old man and satisfied with life."
in chapter 26, at the end of verse 3 and into verse 4, the Lord said to isaac, "I will establish the oath which I swore to your father abraham. I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven , and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed...." in this text, the covenant that God had made with abraham is recounted and remembered...and spoken to isaac in blessing. chapter 15, verses 18 and following...record the covenant that God had made with abraham concerning his descendants and their inheritance of the land. there was evidence as recorded in v 17 that the Lord had passed between the animals which abram had sacrificed..."there appeared a smoking oven and a flaming torch which passed between these pieces." this ceremony went along with covenant and promise in that day...God was essentially saying, if i don't follow through on my end of the promise, may this be my fate (referring to the dead animals). He was promising to abram descendants as many as the stars in the sky.
--personal thoughts--
this will need to be continued...i have a daughter who is very sick tonight. :(
i did want to add that i will be posting additional resources that i want to reference as well as soon as i am able to locate one in particular that i wanted to use with our old testament study but have misplaced.... i will try to continue thoughts on abraham and isaac, and kind of do an overview of this first half of genesis/touching on noah again with some additional thoughts in the early a.m.
be blessed....
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