Base Text: Genesis 16-18:15
1.
Who was Hagar?
2.
Why did Sarai believe she did not have children?
3.
What was Sarai’s plan to bear children?
4.
Did Sarai’s like the results of her plan?
5.
Who came to Hagar in the wilderness?
6.
What was Hagar to do?
7.
What promise is given to Hagar?
8.
What did Hagar call the place and why?
9.
How many years between Ishmael’s birth and the
promise of a child through Sarah?
10.
What did God promise Abram?
11.
Why did God change Abram’s name?
12.
Who did Abraham ask God to accept when another
child was promised to him?
13.
Who was circumcised in Abraham’s house?
14.
What did Abraham do for the three men?
15.
Who made a prophecy about when Sarah would have
a child?
16. When would Sarah have a child?
1.
Was Abram in sin for owning a slave? Can/should we own slaves today?
2.
Why did God require the covenant sign of
circumcision? Should we still have this
sign today?
3.
Who (or what) were the three men?
4.
Abraham and Sarah both laugh when they are told
they will have a child. What can we
learn from both these accounts?
5.
Ishmael is promised to be blessed and become a
great nation. Which nation or people did
Ishmael father?
6. What spiritual state do we see of Abram/Abraham in this section? What conditions do we see on God’s promises?