Base Text: Genesis 25:27-28:22
Take the time and make the effort to add to your timeline and genealogy the new information presented.
1. How was Jacob and Esau described?
2. Which parent loved which child?
3. Why was Esau known as Edom?
4. How did Esau despise his birthright?
5. Where was Isaac to go and not go during the next famine?
6. What promise did God give Isaac?
7. Why was this promise given to Isaac?
8. Where did Isaac settle?
9. What did Isaac answer the men about his wife? Why?
10. What did Abimelech discover about Isaac?
11. What concern did Abimelech have?
12. Did Isaac prosper?
13. What did Abimelech request? Why?
14. What were the names of the wells Isaac dug?
15. Where did Isaac go next and what did he do there?
16. What did Abimelech want with Isaac?
17. What occurred on the same day?
18. What were Esau’s wife’s names and what is said of them?
19. What did Isaac want to do for Esau before he died?
20. What did Rebekah propose to Isaac?
21. How did Jacob explain the quick return from hunting?
22. What blessing did Isaac give Jacob?
23. What blessing did Isaac give Esau?
24. What did Esau plan to do to Jacob and when?
25. What did Rebekah plan and what did she tell Isaac?
26. What did Isaac charge Jacob to do?
27. What did Esau overhear?
28. What was Esau’s response?
29. What was Jacob’s dream and what did God promise him in it?
30. What was Jacob’s first response to the event?
1. What is a birthright? Does Isaac’s blessing hold any significance?
2. Jacob took the birthright from Esau through usury and received the blessing from Jacob through deception yet God continued the blessings promised to Abraham though Jacob. Why?
3. Esau made a rash decision in his hunger; can we make decisions in haste that seem ridiculous later? What wisdom does the Bible offer so we can avoid this?
4. Isaac and Rebekah offer a powerful example of bad parenting. What can we learn from them and the results of their parenting?
5. Jacob makes a vow to Yahweh, do or should we make similar vows today?