Day 8

III The Age of The Patriarchs - 1967-1606 B.C. ~ cont.

A. Job ~ cont.

2. Job and his three friends ~ cont.

c. Second round of speeches - Job 15:1-35; 16:1-22; 17:1-16; 18:1-21; 19:1-28; 20:1-29; 21:1-34

But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. (Job 16:5)

Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? (Job 16:6)

I thought the asswage(d) referenced above was similar to this verse:

And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;  (Genesis 8:1)

From verses 5 and 6 above:

asswage(d) - H2820 - חשׂך - châśak - khaw-sak' - A prim root; to restrain or (reflexively) refrain; by implication to refuse, spare, preserve; also (by interchange with H2821) to observe.

First usage of the word is in Genesis 20:6 regarding Abimelech being withheld from sinning against God by laying with Sarah.

Last usage is in Ezekiel 30:18 - At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

Well, not the same word as the one used about the flood.  Okay, back to the search:

In 8:1 ~ H7918 - שׁכך - shâkak - shaw-kak' - A primitive root; to weave (that is, lay) a trap; figuratively (through the idea of secreting) to allay (passions; physically abate a flood).

First used in Genesis 8:1 for the flood waters.  Used only 5x, twice of which is in Esther.  In 2:1 when Ahasuerus wrath was appeased and then in 7:10 when his wrath was pacified.  In Numbers 17:5 it is used for God making the murmuring of the people to cease.

Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?  (Job 16:6)

Gill:  Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged,.... Though he spoke to God in prayer, and entreated for some abatement of his sorrows, he got no relief; and though he spoke to himself in soliloquies, his sorrow was not repressed nor lessened; he could not administer comfort to himself in the present case, though he might to others in like circumstances, if his own were changed.

Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!  That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!  (Job 19:23-24)

Did Job know?  That what was being spoken would one day be recorded?  As a new believer I heard a song that touched my heart greatly - A Man You Would Write About - and cried unto the Lord, desiring that I would leave such a legacy.  (NOTE:  I am not desiring to be a man, or assume a male position, rather, that I would be found worthy enough to warrant inclusion, IF the Bible were still being written today.)

Which reminds me of a book, written by Steven Lawson, The Legacy - awesome book.  Max Jukes and Jonathan Edwards, both lived during the 18th century, two fathers, two very different legacies.*

Max Jukes?  His legacy?  He was an unbeliever, as was his wife.  Of their known 1,200 descendants they have:

• 440 lives of outright debauchery
• 310 paupers
• 190 public prostitutes
• 130 convicted criminals
• 100 alcoholics
• 60 habitual thieves
• 55 victims of impurity
• 7 murderes

Not a very thrilling list.  Of Johnathan and Sarah Edwards male descendants:

• 300 clergymen, missionaries, or theological professors
• 120 college professors
• 110 lawyers
• over 60 physicians
• over 60 authors of good books
• 30 judges
• 14 presidents of universities
• numerous giants in American industry
• 3 U.S. congressmen
• 1 vice-president of the United States

Job, his story, is written, oh, if only Job knew what comfort and consolation are afforded to the brethren who came after him by hearing and knowing of his great trails and Father's grace and mercy in his life.  What legacy will you leave?  Can you say with the same confidence as Job:

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.  (Job 19:25-27)

Day 4

II From the Flood to the Patriarchs - 2319-1967 B.C.
A. Noah's descendants and related events
1. Son's to overspread the earth - Genesis 9:18-19
2. Descendant listed - Genesis 10:32; 1
a. Sons of Japheth - Genesis 10:2-5; 1 Chronicles 1:5-7
b. Sons of Ham - Genesis 10:6-20; 1 Chronicles 1:8-23; 1 Chronicles 1:17
(1) Birth of Arphaxad (53rd Gen) - 11 Chronicles 1:24; Genesis 11:10
(a) Noah's vineyard and drunkenness - Genesis 9:20-21
(b) Curse of Ham - Genesis 9:22-27
(2) Birth of Salah (52nd Gen) - Genesis 11:12, 10:24; 1 Chronicles 1:18
(3) Birth of Eber (51st Gen) - Genesis 11:14

Begin Parallel Passages

B. Joktan and Peleg (50th Gen) - Genesis 10:25; 1 Chronicles 1:19, 25; Genesis 11:16

                     Lineage of Peleg                                                           Lineage of Joktan  

1. Birth of Reu (49th Gen) - Genesis 11:18                  Genesis 10:26-30; 1 Chronicles 1:20-23

2. Birth of Serug (48th Gen) - Genesis 11:20

 End Parallel Passages

C. Tower of Babel - Genesis 11:1-9
D. Noah's descendants continued and related events
1. Birth of Nahor I (47th Gen) - 1 Chronicles 1:26; Genesis 11:22
2. Birth of Terah (46th Gen) - Genesis 11:24
3. Death of Nimrod the founder of Babylon (apx 172 years) ~ 2032 B.C.
E. Abram's ancestry and related events
1. Birth of Terah's sons - Genesis 11:26
a. Birth of Haran and Job (apx) - 2027 B.C.
b. Birth of Nahor II - 1997 B.C. (R) C 2000 B.C. (K)
2. Early history of Job - Job 1:1-5
3. Death of Peleg (239 years) - Genesis 11:19
4. Death of Nahor I (148 years) - Genesis 11:25
5. Death of Noah (950) years - Genesis 9:28-29
6. Birth of Abram (45th Gen) - 1 Chronicles 1:27
7. Birth of Lot, Haran's son - Genesis 11:27

Nimrod - son of Cush, son of Ham, son of Noah.

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.  (Genesis 10:8)

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. (Genesis 10:9)

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.  (Genesis 10:10)

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.  (1 Chronicles 1:10)

I went on a hunt for more information about Nimrod, but will start with Gill's commentary on the 10:8 passage  ~ warning ~ it is lengthy:  :-D

And Cush begat Nimrod,.... Besides the other five sons before mentioned; and probably this was his youngest son, being mentioned last; or however he is reserved to this place, because more was to be spoken of him than of any of the rest. Sir Walter Raleigh (i) thinks that Nimrod was begotten by Cush after his other children were become fathers, and of a later time than some of his grandchildren and nephews: and indeed the sons of Raamah, the fourth son of Cush, are taken notice of before him: however, the Arabic writers (k) must be wrong, who make him to be the son of Canaan, whereas it is so clear and express from hence that he was the son of Cush. In the Greek version he is called Nebrod, and by Josephus, Nebrodes, which is a name of Bacchus; and indeed Nimrod is the same with the Bacchus of the Heathens, for Bacchus is no other than Barchus, the son of Cush; and Jacchus, which is another of his names in Jah of Cush, or the god the son of Cush; and it is with respect to his original name Nebrod, or Nebrodes, that Bacchus is represented as clothed with the skin of νεβρις, "nebris", or a young hind, as were also his priests; and so in his name Nimrod there may be an allusion to נמרא, "Nimra", which, in the Chaldee language, signifies a tiger, and which kind of creatures, with others, he might hunt; tigers drew in the chariot of Bacchus, and he was sometimes clothed with the skin of one; though the name of Nimrod is usually derived from מרד, "to rebel", because he was a rebel against God, as is generally said; and because, as Jarchi observes, he caused all the world to rebel against God, by the advice he gave to the generation of the division, or confusion of languages, the builders of Babel: he seems to be the same with Belus, the founder of Babel and of the Babylonian empire, whom Diodorus Siculus (l) confounds with Ninus his son:

he began to be a mighty man in the earth: that is, he was the first that formed a plan of government, and brought men into subjection to it; and so the Jews (m) make him to be the first king after God; for of the ten kings they speak of in the world, God is the first, and Nimrod the second; and so the Arabic writers (n) say, he was the first of the kings that were in the land of Babylon; and that, seeing the figure of a crown in the heaven, he got a golden one made like it, and put it on his head; hence it was commonly reported, that the crown descended to him from heaven; for this refers not to his gigantic stature, as if he was a giant, as the Septuagint render it; or a strong robust man, as Onkelos; nor to his moral character, as the Targum of Jonathan, which is,"he began to be mighty in sin, and to rebel before the Lord in the earth;''but to his civil character, as a ruler and governor: he was the first that reduced bodies of people and various cities into one form of government, and became the head of them; either by force and usurpation, or it may be with the consent of the people, through his persuasion of them, and on account of the mighty and heroic actions done by him.

(i) History of the World, B. 1. ch. 10. sect. 1. p. 109. (k) Elmacinus, p. 29. apud Hottinger. Smegma, p. 270. See the Universal History, vol. 1. p. 276. (l) Bibliothec. l. 2. p. 90. (m) Pirke Eliezer, c. 11. (n) Elmacinus, p. 29. Patricides, p. 16. apud Hottinger. Smegma, p. 271, 272. Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. p. 18.

~*~*~ A few sites with some additional information (Note - I do not vet websites, this is not an endorsement of the authors and/or websites, I am simply sharing what I unearthed as I started searching).

The Two Babylons

Babylon in the Church - I have only read chapter 5 wherein the author references the above book, plus another one, Babylon Mystery Religion written by Woodrow.  As I searched for the book, I found that the author had recanted his previous position, pulling the book from print.  His refutation can be found in this article, A Case Study in Poor Methodology.

Another author who traces sun worship back to Nimrod is Richard Reeves in his book Too Long in the Sun.

This is most definitely an area in much need of prayer, study and seeking the Lord in understanding what is and is not acceptable to Him.

Peleg - division - some contend that the earth was physically divided during this time, while others state that it was the Tower of Babel and the division into different tribes, cultures, etc.  The Institute for Creation Research had this article, The Ice Age: Causes and Consequences which addresses some of the questions.

Answers in Genesis had this article, In the days of Peleg which I found interesting.

Day 3

I. From the creation to the flood 3975-2319 B.C. ~ cont.
C. History of the first civilization ~ cont.
4. Noah's life and related events
a. Corrupt civilization as sons of God marry daughters of men - Genesis 6:1-7, 11-12
b. Instructions for building ark - Genesis 6:8, 13-21
c. Birth of Noah's sons - Genesis 5:32, 6:9, 1 Chronicles 1:4
(1) Japheth
(2) Shem (54th Gen)
(3) Ham
d. Death of Lamech (777 years) - Genesis 5:30-31
e. Death of Methuselah (969 years) - Genesis 5:26-27
f. Entering the ark - Genesis 6:22; 7:19
g. The flood
(1) Rain falls - Genesis 7:10-24
(2) Rain stops - Genesis 8:1-3
(3) Ark rests, waters subside - Genesis 8:4
(4) Land seen - Genesis 8:5
(5) Raven, dove, leaf - Genesis 8:6-12
(6) Noah discovers dry land - Genesis 8:13
h. Leaving the ark upon God's command - Genesis 8:14-19
(Third Dispensation Human Government)
j. God's rainbow covenant with Noah - Genesis 8:20-22, 9:8-17, 9:1-7

I just now realized that verses 1-7 of Chapter 9 of Genesis are placed after verses 8-17.

Sometimes I am saddened by the state of our nation and world.  HIS Word reminds me that this temporal plane is not quite as bad as it once was...yet.

And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.  (Genesis 6:12)

corrupt or corrupted - H7843 -שׁחת - shâchath - shaw-khath' - A primitive root; to decay, that is, (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively).

This Hebrew word is used 146x in 135 verses - I did not review all of the verses, hit and missed my way backwards from Malachi (used 3x) and landed on this verse:

The fool hath said in his heart , there is no God.  They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.  (Psalm 14:1)

In the book of Ruth, chapter 4, verse 6, the nearest kinsman responds to Boaz with this statement:  "I can not redeem it for myself (talking about reclaiming Naomi/Ruth's land and marrying Ruth) lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I can not redeem it."

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.  (Genesis 6:8)

grace - H2580 - חן - chên - khane - From H2603; graciousness, that is, subjectively (kindness, favor) or objectively (beauty).

• H2603 - חנן - chânan - khaw-nan' -A primitive root (compare H2583); properly to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (that is, move to favor by petition).

H2580 is used 69x in 67 verses.  First instance is in the verse above, the last usage is in Zechariah 12:10 - And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

And one that many know and quote quite often:  Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.  (Proverbs 31:30)

I wanted to find a site which showed the dimensions of, or gave information about the ark.  The website World Wide Flood has some AWESOME information. Very cool.  This site is also very informative:  Genesis Files.  The article is not very long, but contains a LOT of information.

Noah took the animals by two (male and female ~ notice not male and male or female and female).  The unclean animals were by one set, the clean by sevens.  Story books, movies, toys, etc. usually only show sets of 2, rarely do they show a set of 7 pairs, or even the dinosaurs.  Some who have extensively researched this area state that the animals were probably not mature (not ready to be bred), thus they would have slept more, eaten less and been smaller in size.  I found more information here:  Were Dinosaurs on the Ark?

Got caught up in a rabbit trail of figuring out how long Noah et al were on the ark.  Noah entered 7 days prior  to the flood beginning (Genesis 7:4, 10).  It rained for 40 days (starting on Noah's 601 year, in the second month on the 17th day ~ Genesis 7:11).  The ark rested on seventh month, 17th day (Genesis 8:4).  The waters decreased until the tenth month, first day (Genesis 8:5).  Forty days later Noah lets the raven out, which did not return (Genesis 8:6-7).  Then a dove (assumption is 7 days later?) (Genesis 8:8).  Another 7 days, and sent the dove out (Genesis 8:10).  Another 7 days and the dove did not return (Genesis 8:12).  First day, first month of Noah's 601st year he removes the covering (Genesis 8:13).  Second month, twenty and seventh day the earth was dried (Genesis 8:14).

According to my research a pre-flood month was 30 days.  Soooo...if I take from month 2 (600th year), day 17 until month 2 (601st year), day 27, that would be 30 x 12 + 10 = 370.  Then add in the 7 days prior to the flood beginning would bring the length up to 377 days.  Interesting study, I found several sites which detailed the information.  If you want to research you can try Answers In Genesis or Noah's Ark and Earth History.  I originally found the timeline below on this site.

Went browsing for articles about the flood and found these Why Christians Should Believe in a Global Flood and Every Culture Has a Flood Story, both from the Institute for Creation Research.

From Answers in Genesis, I found Geologic Evidences for the Genesis Flood.  This article is an overview, summarizing six evidences for the flood.  You can link to them from within the article, or do so from here:

Evidence #1 - High & Dry Sea Creatures

Evidence #2—Rapid Burial of Plants and Animals

Evidence #3 - Transcontinental Rock Layers

Evidence #4 - Sand Transported Cross Country

Evidence #5 - No Slow and Gradual Erosion

Evidence #6 - Rock Layers Folded, Not Fractured

Rainbow, covenant, meat eating, accountability for loss of life...wrapping up this reading.  One of the sites I browsed while looking for information on the flood and/or the ark mentioned how a rainbow would not have been possible prior to the rain.  Found this picture online - :-D

Covenants - Father promises to establish HIS covenant with Noah in Genesis 6:18.  Once they leave the ark, 9:9 Father establishes HIS covenant; 9:11, establishes HIS covenant; 9:12, the token (rainbow) of the covenant; 9:1, the token (rainbow) of the covenant; 9:15-16 Father's perpetual or everlasting remembrance of the covenant; 9:17, the token of the covenant established between Father, Noah and all flesh upon the earth.

The word covenant is used (OT) 292x in 272 verses.  The Hebrew word is:

H1285 - בּרית - berı̂yth - ber-eeth' - From H1262 (in the sense of cutting (like H1254)); a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh).


Which is used 284x in 264 verses...interesting...something to study out another time.  :-D

At this juncture Noah and his family are allowed to consume meat - and the animals would now have a fear and dread of humans.  I thought of this while reading the passage about Noah putting out his hand and taking the dove to himself.  It must have been an awesome experience to have been around such a variety of animals and no fear or concern for safety.

My closing verse caused me to reflect upon how wicked our generation has become, yet we tremble not before HIM who judges justly and rightly.  The nations of the world have embraced a process for unwanted pregnancies (idol worship) lest we think there is no accounting, I would beg to differ.  Father looks at us and we are found wanting, we, especially America, owe a very large blood debt.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.  (Genesis 9:8)

Day 2

I. From the creation to the flood 3975-2319 B.C. ~ cont.

B. Fall of man and its consequences ~ cont.

1. Temptation and fall - Genesis 3:1-7

(Second Dispensation - Conscience)

2. Judgement and Curse - Genesis 3:8-19

3. Expulsion from Eden - Genesis 3:21-24

C. History of the first civilization

1. Cain and Abel

a. Birth of Cain - Genesis 4:1

b. Birth of Abel - Genesis 4:2

c. Cain kills Able (124 years) - Genesis 4:3-10

d. Cain is marked - Genesis 4:11-15

Begin Parallel Passages

2. Descendants of Seth and Cain

Genealogy of Righteousness                                                    Genealogy of Wickedness
a. Birth of Seth (63rd Gen) - 1 Chronicles 1:1;                    Line of Cain - Genesis 4:16-24
    Genesis 4:25; 5:3
b. Birth of Enos (62nd Gen) - Genesis 4:26; 5:6
c. Birth of Caian (61st Gen) - Genesis 5:9
d. Birth of Mahalaleel (60th Gen) - 1 Chronicles 1:2;
    Genesis 5:12
e. Birth of Jared (59th Gen) - Genesis 5:15
f. Birth of Enoch (58th Gen) - Genesis 5:18)

End Parallel Passages

3. Adam's descendants continued
a. Birth of Methuselah (57th Gen) - 1 Chronicles 1:3; Genesis 5:21

b. Birth of Lamech (56th Gen) - Genesis 5:25
c. Death of Adam (930 years) - Genesis 5:4-5
d. Enoch's walk with God - Genesis 5:22-23
e. Translation of Enoch (365 years) - Genesis 5:24
f. Death of Seth (912 years) - Genesis 5:7-8
g. Birth of Noah (55th Gen) - Genesis 5:28-29
h. Death of Enos (905 years) - Genesis 5:10-11
i. Death of Cainan (910 years) - Genesis 5:13-14
j. Death of Mahalaleel (895 years) - Genesis 5:16-17
k. Death of Jared (962 years) - Genesis 5:19-20

I was reflecting upon several things as I read through. The first nugget was one I discovered during a discussion which brought up headship, that men are to be a covering for their wives.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.  (Genesis 3:6)

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.  (Genesis 3:7)

The bold words are the ones which I am focusing on at the present moment.  Adam was the covering for his wife.  I do not know what would have happened had he NOT eaten the fruit and it would be pointless to speculate - it is what it is - but the emphasis for me was in his COVERING her.  He was her protector, their eyes were not opened until he willingly disobeyed.

Then Adam opts out of the responsibility - that woman.  The woman admits she was beguiled.

Beguiled - H5377 - נשׁא -nâshâ' - naw-shaw' - A primitive root; to lead astray, that is, (mentally) to delude, or (morally) to seduce.

Used 16x in 15 verses - I liked the one in 2 Kings 18:29, Rabshakeh (Assyria) telling the Jews that Hezekiah (King of Israel) is deceiving them in telling them that God will deliver them from the hand of the king of Assyria.

I like Father's admonishment to Adam:  "Because thou has hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and has eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for they sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of they life; (Genesis 3:17)

Hearkened - H8085 - שׁמע - shâma‛ - shaw-mah' - A primitive root; to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively to tell, etc.).

Used 1158x in 1072 verses - okay, I am way to lazy to look at all those verses.  If memory serves me correctly, Hear O Israel, that hear is the same as this one in Genesis 3:17.  A quick search of the key words Hear O Israel resulted in 72 hits within 22 verses.  Same Hebrew word.

This is also the same word that Adam and Eve "heard" the voice of the Lord walking in the garden in the cool of the day.

An admonishment to us, as women, to take great care in what comes forth from our lips.

Father told Adam "no eating" - I do not know whether Eve was privy to the conversation or not, but Adam definitely had the greater responsibility.

One final thing to share and I will close out this day's postings.  The lineage of Adam down to Noah.  It has been commented that Enosh would have been alive when Noah was born.  I found a couple of charts which show the birth and death of the patriarchs.  Enjoy!

To view this chart and the information about it, check out Answers in Genesis.  To view another one try this link.