I really had to look at this for a long time because I honestly didn't remember ever hearing that name before. Here is some of what I came up with.
LINEAGE:
Adam was the father of Cain.
Cain was the father of Enoch.
Enoch was the father of Irad.
Irad was the father of Mehujael.
Mehujael was the father of Methushael.
Methushael was the father of Lamech.
Lamech was the father of Noah.
Noah was the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.
Shem was the father of Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram.
Arpachshad was the father of Shelah.
Shelah was the father of Eber.
Eber was the father of Peleg and Joktan.
Peleg was the father of Reu.
Reu was the father of Serug.
Serug was the father of Nahor.
Nahor was the father of Terah.
Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. (Haran was the father of Lot. Also, it would appear that Terah named one of his sons after his own father.)
Terah was also the father of Sarah but through a different mother than Abraham. (Later Sarah is referred to as Terah's daughter-in-law rather than daughter. The only mention of her being Terah's daughter is when Abraham is explaining that he didn't completely lie about Sarah being his sister rather than his wife to Abimelech.)
OTHER NOTES ABOUT TERAH:
Terah was 70 years old when he bacame the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. (Gen 11:26)
Terah lived in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans. (Gen 11:28)
Terah is the one who took Abram (his son) and Abram's family plus Lot (Terah's grandson) toward Canaan but he stopped in Haran.
Terah lived to be 205. (Gen 11:32)
Terah became the name of a city which was one that the Israelites passed through under the leadership of Moses and Aaron. (Num 33:27-28)
Terah served other gods. (Joshua 24:2)
Whew! It was quite a journey trying to figure out who this guy was.
2 comments:
Isn't it amazing that Jesus came to us through Cain (our first murderer), Jacob (quite the deceiver), Judah (who sold his brother Joseph to the Egyptians), Obed (the son of Boaz and Ruth ... they were faithful but I'm not sure about Naomi's husband and sons), Solomon (born to David and Bathsheba after they had an affair while Bathsheba was married to Uriah and David sent Uriah off to where he was sure to be killed ... even going so far as to tell his troops to hang back a bit when Uriah went out).
Wow! How did it get to be past midnight? I have to go to bed.
I've often thought about the fact that Mary and Joseph were both from the line of David. I guess God just didn't want us to miss the fact of where Jesus came from. Although biologically Jesus had nothing to do with Joseph back in the day I think it was the father's lineage that was much more important than the mother's. Plus most people probably didn't believe that God was the father but Joseph ... I mean really. If it was a friend of yours who got pregnant at 13 or whatever Mary was and she told you the father was the Holy Spirit, would you believe her whole heartedly or would you wonder if she was blocking some other traumatic event that she didn't want to remember. Put yourself in Mary's mothers shoes ... would you have believed her? I just don't know if I would have, I probably would have given her an awfully hard time.
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