Bible lesson
Chapter 9: Beer-sheba and the Binding
Study notes, questions and the Bible passages that Kingdoms of Scripture Chapter 9 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
Sarah bears Abraham a son, Isaac, when Abraham is old, and later Abraham sends Hagar and the boy away, and she wanders in the Beer-sheba wilderness. God tests Abraham by telling him to offer up Isaac on a mountain in Moriah, but Abraham ends up offering a ram in place of his son.
From Genesis 21:1–3 (KoS), Genesis 21:14 (KoS), Genesis 22:1–2 (KoS), Genesis 22:13 (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
- 9
- Title
- Beer-sheba and the Binding
- Bible passages
- Genesis 21:1–22:24
- Read in the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible
- The chapter opens with
Abraham said, “God will see to the lamb for the whole offering, my son.” And the two of them walked together.
Note · Translation Yireh is “he will see.” “See to” is the sense printed, because the same verb returns in the name of the place. “Provide” is the later English habit, and it is not printed.
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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What does the messenger of God ask Hagar, and what does he tell her God has heard?
God heard the boy’s voice, and the messenger of God called to Hagar from the sky and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the boy’s voice where he is.
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What do Abimelech and Phicol tell Abraham about God, and what do they ask him to swear?
At that time Abimelech, and Phicol the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do. Now swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, or with my offspring, or with my descendants. According to the loyalty I have done for you, you shall do for me, and for the land where you have stayed.”
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What does the messenger of Yahweh tell Abraham not to do, and what reason does he give?
The messenger of Yahweh called to him from the sky and said, “Abraham, Abraham.” He said, “Here I am.” He said, “Do not reach out your hand against the boy, and do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only one, from me.”
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Kingdoms of Scripture Bible (KoS). CC BY 4.0. Source: bible.kingdomsofscripture.com. Quotations are whole published verses, matched to the game’s chapter references.