Bible lesson
Chapter 5: The Line to Terah
Study notes, questions and the Bible passages that Kingdoms of Scripture Chapter 5 covers, as the game’s chapter map shows them. Read the passages first in the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible, the text the game quotes: the game’s choices, maps and staging are reconstructions, not scripture. This page is not a church lesson and adds no doctrine.
Study notes
Shem fathers Arpachshad after the flood, and later Terah fathers Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Terah takes Abram, Sarai, and his grandson Lot out of Ur of the Chaldeans toward Canaan, but they settle in Haran, where Terah dies.
From Genesis 11:10 (KoS), Genesis 11:27 (KoS), Genesis 11:31 (KoS), Genesis 11:32 (KoS).
These notes and questions are original study helps written for this site, not scripture. The verses shown with each question are quoted from the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible.
- Chapter
- 5
- Title
- The Line to Terah
- Bible passages
- Genesis 11:10–11:32
- Read in the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible
- The chapter opens with
Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. They came as far as Haran and settled there.
Notice and discuss
Read each passage, then think about the question on your own or talk it over with others. No answers are collected.
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How old is Shem when he fathers Arpachshad, and how long after the flood is it?
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and fathered Arpachshad, two years after the flood.
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Where does Haran die, and in whose presence does he die?
Haran died in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
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What does the text say about Sarai and whether she has children?
Sarai was barren. She had no child.
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