Season 4 Episode 10 – Genesis 21: WeHadABabyItsABoy!!

Coming Up! - 0:00

Intro! - 1:05

Meet Misan! - 2:48

A’ight So Boom! - 5:22

Read Genesis 21 1-7 - 9:30

• Birth of Isaac

• The LORD

• visited Sarah - just as promised

• Conception

• Bore Abraham a son in his old age

• Just as was spoken to him

• Abraham

• Called his name, Isaac (his son, born to him, Sarah bore him)

• Circumcised his son at 8 days old (a Command of God, a sign of the covenant the LORD made with Abraham)

• Abraham was 100 years old

• Sarah Said

• God has made laughter for me

• Everyone who hears will laugh over me

• I nurse children

• I have borne Abraham a son

Read Genesis 21 8-11 - 18:33

• It’s Weaning Day!!!! - What’s the significance?

• The Child grew

• The child was weaned

• Abraham made a great feast on the day

• Someone’s not happy

• But (as opposed to the happy feast)

• My man was just laughing

• This time a demand to Abraham

• Cast out this slave woman, with her son

• Worried about him being an heir with Isaac

• Now Abraham’s not happy (this is still his son)

Read Genesis 21 12-14 - 26:21

• The LORD speaks to Abraham (wonder if Abraham solicited the LORD)

• Don’t be upset for the boy or the slave woman

• Do what Sarah says

• Isaac is the chosen son, your offspring will go through him

• And I will make a nation of your son Ishmael

• Because he is your offspring (Abraham’s offspring)

• Abraham acts

• Rose early in the morning (Abimelech?)

• Gave bread and water to Hagar

• Sent her with the child, away

• She departed in the wilderness of Beersheba

Read Genesis 21 15-21 - 33:44

• The water has run out

• She put Ishmeal in on place (in the shade)

• She went somewhere else to sit (a bowshot)

• Do not want to see the death of my child

• She wept

• The LORD intervenes for Hagar again

• Heard the voice of the boy (Ishmael in travail also)

• No dialogue - questions asked but no answer

• What troubles you Hagar

• Commands given

• Up!

• Lift up the boy

• Hold him fast with your hand

• Promise retold (I will make him a great nation) - Told to Abraham and Hagar

• The LORD provides

• Opens her eyes to a well of water (in too much despair to see?)

• She filled the skin

• Gave the boy a drink

• Ishamel lives on

• Future narrative - God was with the boy (Joseph like?)

• He lived in the wilderness

• Became and expert with the bow

• He lived in the wilderness or Paran (not in Paran)

• Was married to a wife from Egypt

Read Genesis 21 22-24 - 44:04

• Treaty

• Abimelech and Phicol (Command of Abimelech’s army)

• Recognized that ‘God is with you in all that you do.’

• Wants Abraham to swear - worried about Abraham?

• Swear to me by God (your God)

• You will be straight up with me, my descendants, my posterity (progeny)

• Why - Cause, I was really nice to you

• Abraham agreed

Read Genesis 21 25-31 - 55:31

• Abraham reproved (brought an argument to) Abimelech

• About a well of water

• Abimelech’s servants seized it

• Abimelech did not know about this (going to give him the benefit of the doubt)

• Abraham again takes the initiative to address the issue

• Took sheep and oxen (did they just exchange animals) gave them to Abimelech

• The two made a covenant (agreement)

• Abraham’s not done

• Set apart 7 ewe lambs

• Gives them to Abimelech as a witness that he dug this well 

• Place called Beersheba - because there both of them swore an oath

Read Genesis 21 32-34 - 1:06:44

• Covenant made between Abimelech and Abraham

• Abimilech and Phicol left to Philistine

• Abraham planned a Taramisk tree

• Abraham called upon the name of the LORD

• The Everlasting God (Covenant made with the families and their posterity)

• Abraham sojourned (an alien in the land) many days in the land