Overview, Part 1 Of 2
Overview, Part 2 Of 2
Genesis
A. The Primeval History (Ge 1:1-11:26)
1. The Creation (Ge 1:1-2:3)
I.) Creation (Ge 1:1)
A.) The Original Creation [OR] The History Of Creation [OR] The Beginning [OR] The Creation [OR] Six Days Of Creation And The Sabbath [OR] Creation Of Heaven And Earth (Ge 1:1)
B.) Earth Made Waste And Empty By Judgment (Ge 1:2)
C.) The New Beginning (Ge 1:3)
1.) The First Day: Light Diffused [OR] Creation Of The Light (Ge 1:3)
2.) The Second Day: Vapor Above, Water Below [OR] Creation Of The Firmament (Ge 1:6)
3.) The Third Day: Land And Sea; Plant Life Appears [OR] The Earth Separated From The Waters (Ge 1:9)
4.) The Fourth Day: The Sun, Moon, And Stars Become Visible [OR] Creation Of The Sun, Moon And Stars (Ge 1:14)
5.) The Fifth Day: The Second Creative Act--Animal Life [OR] Creation Of Fish, Fowl, Beasts And Cattle (Ge 1:20)
6.) The Sixth Day (Ge 1:24)
(I.) The Fecundity Of The Earth After The Creative Work Of The Fifth Day (Ge 1:24)
(II.) The Creation Of Man [OR] Creation Man In The Image Of God (Ge 1:26)
D.) The First Dispensation: Innocency (Ge 1:28)
1.) The First, Or Edenic Covenant: Conditioned The Life Of Unfallen Man (Ge 1:28)
(I.) Provision For Food (Ge 1:29)
2.) The Sabbath Rest Of God: Type Of The Believer's Rest In The Finished Work Of Redemption [OR]
The First Sabbath (Ge 2:1)
2. The Creation of Man and Woman (Ge 2:4-25)
1.) Summary Of The Creation Work Of Chapter 1 [OR] Adam And Eve [OR] Another Account Of The Creation [OR] The Manner Of The Creation (Ge 2:4)
2.) The Creative Act Of Gen. 1:27 Described (Ge 2:7)
3.) The Habitation Of Unfallen Man, And The Edenic Covenant [OR] Life In God's Garden [OR] The Garden Of Eden, And The River Thereof (Ge 2:8)
(I.) The Tree Of Knowledge (Ge 2:17)
(II.) Naming The Creatures (Ge 2:19)
4.) The Method Of The Creation Of Woman [OR] The Making Of Woman And The Institution Of Marriage (Ge 2:21)
5.) Eve, Type Of The Church As Bride Of Christ (Ge 2:23)
3. The First Sin and the First Promise (Ge 3:1-24)
I.) The Fall and Redemption (Ge 3:1)
A.) The Temptation Of Eve (Ge 3:1)
1.) The Implied Doubt Of The Benevolence Of God [OR] The Temptation And Fall Of Man [OR] The Fall Of Man [OR] The First Sin And Its Punishment [OR] The Serpent's Deception And Man's Shameful Fall (Ge 3:1)
2.) Adding To The Word Of God (Ge 3:2)
3.) The First Lie (Ge 3:4)
4.) The Appeal To Pride (Ge 3:5)
5.) The Fall (Ge 3:6)
B.) The Seeking God. His Sabbath Rest Broken; His New Work Begun (Ge 3:8)
1.) God Arraigns Adam And Eve (Ge 3:9)
2.) The Second, Or Adamic Covenant [OR] The Serpent Is Cursed Above All Beasts (Ge 3:14)
(I.) The Promised Seed (Ge 3:15)
(II.) The Punishment God Promises For Mankind (Ge 3:16)
3.) The Faith Of Adam (Ge 3:20)
4.) The Response Of Jehovah Elohim To The Faith Of Adam (Ge 3:21)
5.) The Judgment Of The Expulsion Ends The First Dispensation (Ge 3:22)
C.) The Second Dispensation: Conscience [OR] Loss Of Paradise (Ge 3:23)
4. Cain Murders Abel (Ge 4:1-16)
A.) The First Sons Of Adam And Eve [OR] Cain Murders Abel [OR] Cain And Abel [OR] The Birth Of Cain And Abel (Ge 4:1)
B.) Cain Exhorted Even Yet To Bring A Sin-Offering (Ge 4:6)
I.) The Diverse Seeds, Cain and Seth, to the Flood (Ge 4:8)
A.) The First Murder: History Of Cain [OR] The Murder Of Abel (Ge 4:8)
1.) The Curse Of Cain (Ge 4:9)
B.) The First Civilization [OR] The Family Of Cain (Ge 4:16)
5. Cain's Ten Descendants-Cain to Lamech (Ge 4:17-24)
1.) Beginnings Of Civilization [OR] Enoch, The First City (Ge 4:17)
2.) Lamech And His Two Wives (Ge 4:19)
6. Adam's Godly Descendants-Adam to Enosh (Ge 4:25-26)
A.) The Birth Of Seth: The Spiritual Seed Renewed [OR] A New Son [OR] Birth Of Seth And Enos (Ge 4:25)
7. Adam's Ten Descendants-Adam to Noah (Ge 5:1-32)
B. Antediluvian Age
(Ge 5:1-6:8)
1.) The Family Of Adam [OR] From Adam To Noah [OR] Descendants Of Adam [OR] Adam's Descendants To Noah And His Sons [OR] Genealogy And Age Of The Patriarchs (Ge 5:1)
A.) The Family Of Seth (Ge 5:6)
1.) The Goss And Translation Of Enoch (Ge 5:24)
1. Evil Increases on the Earth (Ge 6:1-8)
A.) The Flood (Ge 6:1)
1.) The Marriage Of Cainites With Sethites [OR] The Wickedness And Judgment Of Man [OR] The Flood [OR] The Corruption Of Mankind [OR] The Wickedness Of Humankind [OR] The Wickedness Of The World (Ge 6:1)
2.) The Warning Of Jehovah (Ge 6:3)
3.) The Antediluvian Civilization (Ge 6:4)
4.) The Purpose Of Jehovah In Judgment (Ge 6:5)
5.) The Purpose Of Jehovah In Grace [OR] Noah Finds Grace [OR] Noah Pleases God (Ge 6:8)
2. Noah's Family and the Ship (Ge 6:9-22)
(I.) The Ark Prepared [OR] The Order, Form And Use Of The Ark (Ge 6:13)
3. The Flood (Ge 7:1-24)
1.) The Judgment Of The Flood: End Of Testing Under The Second Dispensation [OR] The Great Flood [OR] The Flood [OR] Noah, His Family And The Creatures, Enter The Ark (Ge 7:1)
(I.) The Flood (Ge 7:17)
4. God Remembers Noah (Ge 8:1-22)
I.) The Flood to Babel (Ge 8:1)
A.) The Flood Recedes [OR] Noah's Deliverance [OR] The Flood Subsides [OR] The Waters Subside (Ge 8:1)
1.) The Ark Rests On Ararat (Ge 8:4)
2.) The Raven And The Dove (Ge 8:7)
3.) Noah, Being Commanded (Ge 8:15)
4.) Goes Forth Out Of The Ark (Ge 8:18)
B.) The Third Dispensation: Human Government (Ge 8:20)
1.) The Third, Or Noahic Covenant [OR] God's Covenant With Creation [OR] God's Promise To Noah [OR] Noah Builds An Altar And Offers Sacrifice (Ge 8:20)
(I.) God Accepts And Promises To Curse The Earth No More (Ge 8:21)
5. God Blesses Noah and His Sons (Ge 9:1-7)
(I.) God's Promise To Noah [OR] God's Covenant With Noah [OR] Covenant Of The Rainbow [OR] The Covenant With Noah [OR] God Blesses Noah (Ge 9:1)
6. God's Promise-The Sign of the Rainbow (Ge 9:8-17)
(I.) God's Covenant Is Signified By The Rainbow (Ge 9:9)
7. Noah Curses Canaan but Blesses Shem and Japheth (Ge 9:18-29)
(I.) Noah And His Sons [OR] The Sons Of Noah [OR] Noah And His Sons (Ge 9:18)
(A.) Parenthetical: the shame of Noah and the sin of Ham [OR] Noah plants a vineyard, gets drunk and is mocked (Ge 9:20)
(B.) Conclusion of Noahic Covenant: the prophetic declaration (Ge 9:24)
(1.) Noah curses Canaan (Ge 9:25)
(2.) Noah blesses Shem (Ge 9:26)
(3.) Noah prays for Japheth, and dies (Ge 9:27)
(C.) The family of Noah (Ge 9:28)
8. The 14 Descendants of Japheth (Ge 10:1-5)
(1.) Nations Descended from Noah [OR] The Table of Nations [OR] Descendants of Noah [OR] Nations Descended from Noah [OR] The generations of Noah (Ge 10:1)
(2.) The Japhethites [OR] The sons of Japheth (Ge 10:2)
9. The 30 Descendants of Ham (Ge 10:6-20)
(1.) The Hamites [OR] The sons of Ham (Ge 10:6)
(2.) Nimrod, the first monarch (Ge 10:8)
10. The 26 Descendants of Shem (Ge 10:21-32)
(1.) The Semites [OR] The sons of Shem [OR] The Tower of Babel [OR] Universal Language, Babel, Confusion [OR] One language in the world (Ge 10:21)
11. The Tower of Babel (Ge 11:1-9)
(A.) The failure of man under the Noahic Covenant (Ge 11:1)
(1.) The building of Babel (Ge 11:3)
(B.) The judgment of the confusion of tongues. Life continues under the Adamic and Noahic Covenants [OR] The confusion of tongues (Ge 11:5)
12. The Ten Descendants of Shem-Shem to Terah (Ge 11:10-26)
a. Shem's Genealogy (Ge 11:10-26)
I.) From the call of Abram to the death of Joseph (Ge 11:10)
A.) The Ancestry Of Abram [OR] Shem's Descendants [OR] From Shem To Abram [OR] Descendants Of Shem [OR] The Generations Of Shem, The Father Of Abram (Ge 11:10)
C. The Patriarchal History (Ge 11:27-50:26)
1. Terah Moves to Haran (Ge 11:27-32)
a. Terah: Abraham and Isaac (Ge 11:27-25):11)
1.) Terah's Descendants [OR] Descendants Of Terah (Ge 11:27)
A.) Incomplete Obedience: The Wasted Years At Haran [OR] Terah Goes From Ur To Haran (Ge 11:31)
2. The LORD'S First Promise to Abram (Ge 12:1-3)
A.) The Fourth Dispensation: Promise: From The Call Of Abram To The Giving Of The Law (Ge 12:1)
1.) Abraham (Ge 12:1)
(I.) The Fourth, Or Abrahamic Covenant [OR] Promises To Abram [OR] The Call Of Abram [OR] Abram Journeys To Egypt [OR] God Calls Abram; Blesses Him With A Promise Of Christ (Ge 12:1)
3. The LORD'S Second Promise to Abram (Ge 12:4-9)
(A.) Abram in the land: worship, communion, and promise [OR] He departs with Lot from Haran (Ge 12:4)
(1.) Abram journeys through Canaan, which is promised him in a vision (Ge 12:6)
4. Abram Deceives Pharaoh (Ge 12:10-20)
(A.) Under trial Abram forsakes the place of blessing [OR] Abram to Egypt [OR] Abram in Egypt [OR] Abram and Sarai in Egypt [OR] He is driven by a famine into Egypt (Ge 12:10)
(1.) He represents his wife to be his sister (Ge 12:12)
(2.) Sarai is taken by Pharaoh, who is compelled by plagues to restore her (Ge 12:14)
5. Abram and Lot Separate (Ge 13:1-13)
(A.) Abram returns to the land and the altar [OR] Abram Inherits Canaan [OR] Abram and Lot Separate [OR] Abram and Lot [OR] Abram and Lot return out of Egypt and agree to separate (Ge 13:1)
(I.) Lot (Ge 13:5)
(A.) Abram's separation from Lot (Ge 13:5)
(B.) Lot's first step in backsliding [OR] Lot goes to Sodom (Ge 13:10)
(C.) Lot's second step in backsliding (Ge 13:12)
6. The LORD'S Third Promise to Abram (Ge 13:14-18)
(A.) The Abrahamic Covenant: the land given; natural posterity promised [OR] God renews the promise to Abram (Ge 13:14)
(1.) He removes to Hebron, and builds an altar (Ge 13:18)
7. Abram Rescues Lot (Ge 14:1-16)
(A.) Abram delivers Lot [OR] Lot's Captivity and Rescue [OR] Abram Rescues Lot [OR] War of the Kings [OR] The battle of four kings against five (Ge 14:1)
(1.) Lot is taken prisoner and is rescued by Abram (Ge 14:11)
8. Melchizedek Blesses Abram (Ge 14:17-24)
(I.) The Revelation Of God As El Elyon, "the Most High God, Possessor Of Heaven And Earth" [OR] God's Promise To Abram [OR] Abram Blessed By Melchizedek (Ge 14:17)
(A.) Abram and Melchizedek [OR] Melchizedek blesses him (Ge 14:18)
(B.) Abram gives him tithe (Ge 14:20)
(C.) He restores the rest to the king of Sodom [OR] God's Covenant With Abram [OR] Abram Promised a Son [OR] God encourages Abram (Ge 14:22)
9. The LORD'S Fourth Promise to Abram (Ge 15:1-21)
(A.) The Abrahamic Covenant confirmed: a spiritual seed promised (Ge 15:1)
(1.) Abram complains for lack of an heir (Ge 15:2)
(2.) God promises him a son and numerous progeny (Ge 15:4)
(3.) Abraham is justified by faith (Ge 15:6)
(4.) Canaan promised again (Ge 15:7)
(5.) and confirmed by a sign and a vision [OR] Hagar and Ishmael [OR] Sarai and Hagar [OR] The Birth of Ishmael [OR] Sarai, being barren, gives Hagar to Abram (Ge 15:9)
10. Abram and Hagar (Ge 16:1-16)
(A.) The birth of Ishmael (Ge 16:1)
(1.) Hagar despises her mistress, is punished, and runs away (Ge 16:4)
(2.) An angel sends her back, telling her she will bear a child (Ge 16:7)
(3.) Hagar bears a son who is named Ishmael (Ge 16:15)
11. The LORD'S Fifth Promise to Abraham (Ge 17:1-22)
(I.) The Revelation Of God As El Shaddai, Almighty God [OR] The Sign Of The Covenant [OR] The Covenant Of Circumcision [OR] Abraham And The Covenant Of Circumcision [OR] God Renews The Covenant With Abram (Ge 17:1)
(A.) Abram becomes Abraham (Ge 17:4)
(1.) Abram's name is changed, in token of a greater blessing (Ge 17:5)
(B.) The Abrahamic Covenant confirmed and made everlasting (Ge 17:6)
(C.) Circumcision established as the sign of the Abrahamic Covenant (Ge 17:9)
(1.) Circumcision is instituted (Ge 17:10)
(D.) The promise of Isaac, in whom the line of Christ runs [OR] Sarai's name is changed, and she is blessed (Ge 17:15)
(1.) Isaac is promised; God's covenant to be established through him (Ge 17:17)
(E.) Ishmael to be a nation (Ge 17:20)
12. Abraham's Household Circumcised (Ge 17:23-27)
(1.) Abraham and Ishmael are circumcised (Ge 17:23)
13. The LORD'S Sixth Promise to Abraham (Ge 18:1-15)
(I.) Abraham, "The Friend Of God" [OR] The Son Of Promise [OR] The Three Visitors [OR] Birth Of Isaac Promised [OR] A Son Promised To Abraham And Sarah [OR] The Lord Appears To Abraham (Ge 18:1)
(A.) Abraham entertains three angels (Ge 18:2)
(B.) Sarah is reproved for laughing at the strange promise (Ge 18:9)
14. The LORD Tells Abraham About His Plan (Ge 18:16-33)
(A.) Abraham Intercedes for Sodom [OR] Abraham Pleads for Sodom [OR] Judgment Pronounced on Sodom (Ge 18:16)
(B.) The destruction of Sodom is revealed to Abraham (Ge 18:17)
(C.) Abraham the intercessor [OR] Abraham makes intercession for its people (Ge 18:23)
15. Lot's Guests Are Assaulted (Ge 19:1-11)
(A.) The destruction of Sodom. The third step in Lot's backsliding: a great man in Sodom [OR] Sodom's Depravity [OR] Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed [OR] The Doom of Sodom [OR] The Depravity of Sodom [OR] Lot entertains two angels (Ge 19:1)
(1.) The vicious Sodomites stricken with blindness [OR] Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed [OR] Lot is sent for safety into the mountains (Ge 19:4)
16. Lot Leaves Sodom, and the Cities Are Destroyed (Ge 19:12-29)
(1.) He obtains leave to go into Zoar (Ge 19:18)
(2.) Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed (Ge 19:24)
(3.) Lot's wife become a pillar of salt (Ge 19:26)
17. Lot's Daughters Have Sons by Their Father (Ge 19:30-38)
(1.) The Descendants of Lot [OR] Lot and His Daughters [OR] Lot Is Debased [OR] The Shameful Origin of Moab and Ammon [OR] Lot dwells in a cave (Ge 19:30)
(2.) The birth of Moah and Ammon [OR] Abraham and Abimelech [OR] Abraham's Treachery [OR] Abraham and Sarah at Gerar [OR] Abraham at Gerar (Ge 19:31)
(A.) The last step in Lot's backsliding (Ge 19:33)
18. Abraham Deceives Abimelech (Ge 20:1-18)
(I.) Abraham's Lapse At Gerar (Ge 20:1)
(A.) denies his wife, and loses her (Ge 20:2)
(B.) Abimelech is reproved for her in a dream and rebukes Abraham (Ge 20:3)
(C.) He restores Sarah (Ge 20:14)
(D.) and is healed by Abraham's prayer (Ge 20:17)
19. God Provides for Hagar and Ishmael (Ge 21:1-21)
1.) Abraham And Isaac (Ge 21:1)
(I.) The Birth Of Isaac [OR] Isaac Is Born (Ge 21:1)
(A.) He is circumcised (Ge 21:4)
(B.) Sarah's joy (Ge 21:6)
(C.) Hagar and Ishmael Depart [OR] Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away (Ge 21:8)
(II.) The Bondwoman And Her Son Cast Out [OR] Sarah Turns Against Hagar [OR] Hagar And Ishmael Are Expelled (Ge 21:9)
(A.) They are in distress (Ge 21:15)
(B.) The angel comforts her (Ge 21:17)
20. Abraham's Agreement With Abimelech (Ge 21:22-34)
(I.) Abraham At Beer-sheba [OR] A Covenant With Abimelech [OR] The Treaty Of Beersheba [OR] Covenant With Abimelech [OR] Abraham And Abimelech Make A Covenant [OR] Abimelech And Abraham Make A Covenant (Ge 21:22)
21. God Tests Abraham (Ge 22:1-14)
(A.) The offering of Isaac [OR] Abraham's Faith Confirmed [OR] Abraham Tested [OR] The Command to Sacrifice Isaac [OR] God, testing Abraham's faith, commands him to sacrifice Isaac (Ge 22:1)
(1.) Abraham gives proof of faith and obedience (Ge 22:3)
(2.) The angel stops him (Ge 22:11)
(3.) The place is called Jehovah-jireh (Ge 22:14)
22. The LORD'S Seventh Promise to Abraham (Ge 22:15-19)
(A.) The Abrahamic Covenant confirmed [OR] Abraham is again blessed (Ge 22:15)
23. Abraham Learns of Nahor's Descendants (Ge 22:20-24)
(1.) The Family of Nahor [OR] Nahor's Sons [OR] The Children of Nahor [OR] The generation of Nahor to Rebekah (Ge 22:20)
24. Sarah's Death (Ge 23:1-20)
(I.) The Death And Burial Of Sarah [OR] Sarah's Death And Burial [OR] The Death Of Sarah [OR] Death And Burial Of Sarah [OR] The Age And Death Of Sarah (Ge 23:1)
(A.) The purchase of Machpelah, where Sarah was buried (Ge 23:3)
25. Abraham Instructs His Servant (Ge 24:1-10)
(I.) A Bride For Isaac [OR] Isaac And Rebekah [OR] The Marriage Of Isaac And Rebekah [OR] Abraham Swears His Servant (Ge 24:1)
(A.) The servant's journey (Ge 24:10)
26. Abraham's Servant Finds a Wife for Isaac (Ge 24:11-61)
(A.) His prayer (Ge 24:12)
(B.) His sign (Ge 24:14)
(C.) Rebekah Is Chosen [OR] Rebekah meets him, fulfilling his sign (Ge 24:15)
(D.) He gives her jewels (Ge 24:22)
(E.) She reveals her relationship (Ge 24:23)
(F.) and offers hospitality (Ge 24:25)
(G.) The servant blesses God (Ge 24:26)
(H.) Laban entertains him (Ge 24:28)
(I.) The servant explains his mission (Ge 24:33)
(J.) Laban and Bethuel give their approval (Ge 24:50)
(K.) Isaac Marries Rebekah (Ge 24:61)
27. Isaac and Rebekah Are Married (Ge 24:62-67)
(A.) The meeting of Isaac and Rebekah (Ge 24:62)
28. Abraham's Second Marriage and His Death (Ge 25:1-11)
(I.) Abraham Weds Keturah [OR] Abraham And Keturah [OR] The Death Of Abraham [OR] Abraham's Death [OR] Abraham Marries Keturah [OR] The Sons Of Abraham By Keturah (Ge 25:1)
(II.) Isaac Heir Of All Things [OR] The Division Of His Goods (Ge 25:5)
(III.) The Death Of Abraham [OR] Abraham's Death And Burial [OR] The Age, Death, And Burial Of Abraham (Ge 25:7)
29. The 12 Tribes of Ishmael (Ge 25:12-18)
(I.) The Generations Of Ishmael [OR] The Families Of Ishmael And Isaac [OR] Ishmael's Sons [OR] Descendants Of Ishmael [OR] Ishmael's Descendants (Ge 25:12)
30. Esau and Jacob (Ge 25:19-34)
(I.) The Generations Of Isaac [OR] Jacob And Esau [OR] Isaac's Sons [OR] The Birth And Youth Of Esau And Jacob [OR] Isaac Prays That The Barrenness Of Rebekah Be Healed (Ge 25:19)
(A.) Two children strive in her womb (Ge 25:22)
1.) Jacob And Esau (Ge 25:24)
(I.) The Birth Of Esau And Jacob [OR] Esau Sells His Birthright [OR] Isaac And Abimelech [OR] Isaac Settles In Gerar [OR] Because Of Famine, Isaac Goes To Gerar (Ge 25:24)
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