Genesis 34:25 – On the third day, when they were sore, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and came against the city while it felt secure and killed all the males. After Jacob’s only daughter, Dinah, is defiled, and Jacob sits idly by, we see another mini-Fall … Read more
Genesis 34:30-31 – Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me stink to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. My numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.” But they said, “Should he treat … Read more
Genesis 34:13 – The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah. After Dinah was defiled, her brothers told the unsuspecting men of Shechem a strategic lie, that they would happily intermarry with them and share all of their great wealth. However, the Shechemites would first … Read more
Genesis 34:2 – And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her. When he was nearly finally home after a 20-year absence, Israel (formerly Jacob) settled in Shechem. This father’s decision proved to be as devastating as Lot’s … Read more
Genesis 30:3 – Then she said, “Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her.” Yesterday, we started looking at how polygamy started in the days of Genesis but how it continues in new and creative ways in today’s time through … Read more
Genesis 30:3 – Then she said, “Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her.” Many times throughout Scripture, we see a great difference between what the Word instructs of us and what the world portrays. We see this all throughout … Read more
Genesis 20:17 – Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children. In the last devo, we saw in Genesis 20 how Abraham made the same foolish mistake as earlier in the book by, once again, trying to give his wife Sarah away. … Read more
Genesis 20:10-11 – And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you did this thing?” Abraham said, “I did it because I thought, ‘There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.’” Anyone who is married will tell you how easy it is to fall … Read more
Genesis 19:33 – So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down or when she arose. As soon as sin enters the world, the first thing that happens is that our first parents, who were naked and … Read more
Genesis 19:32 – “Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” In the closing account of Genesis 19:30-38, we then witness one of the most troubling and bizarre stories in all of Scripture. There, the story of Lot closely resembles the … Read more
Genesis 19:5 – And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” Since the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is the most graphic account of God’s response to sexual sin in general, and homosexual sin in particular, we need … Read more
Genesis 9:13 – I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. In Genesis 9, God puts the rainbow in the sky to signify His covenant with His people. In that time, the main weapon of war was the bow and, when … Read more