The Bible In Paintings >>> “!Bible Quiz!” Series ✝️ ISAAC’S BROTHER, SARAH’S REACTION, ABRAHAM’S TEST, JACOB’S BROTHER ✝️

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!BIBLE QUIZ!
TODAY’S QUESTIONS:

9. “WHAT WAS THE NAME OF ISAAC’S OLDER HALF-BROTHER, THE SON OF HAGAR?”

10. “WHEN THE THREE VISITORS PROMISED ABRAHAM THAT SARAH WOULD BEAR A SON, SARAH WAS EAVESDROPPING. WHEN SARAH HEARD THEIR PROMISE, WHAT DID SHE DO?”

11. “GOD TESTED ABRAHAM’S FAITH BY ORDERING HIM TO SACRIFICE HIS ONLY SON, AND ABRAHAM REASONED THAT GOD COULD RAISE HIM FROM THE DEAD. DOES THIS REMIND YOU OF ANY OTHER FATHER-AND-SON?”

12. “WHAT DID ESAU GIVE HIS TWIN BROTHER JACOB IN EXCHANGE FOR A MEAL, AND WHAT DID JACOB STEAL FROM ESAU, WITH THEIR MOTHER REBECCA’S HELP, BY DECEIVING THEIR FATHER ISAAC?”

ANSWERS APPEAR BELOW,
WITH CORRESPONDING ART

Q#9: “WHAT WAS THE NAME OF ISAAC’S OLDER HALF-BROTHER, THE SON OF HAGAR?” A: ISHMAEL

GENESIS 16

1
ADRIAEN VAN DER WERFF
"Sarah Presenting Hagar to Abraham"

2
MATTHIAS STOM
"Sarah Presenting Hagar to Abraham"

3
CASPER NETSCHER
"Sarah Leading Hagar to Abraham"

4
French School
"Sarah Presenting Hagar to Abraham"

GENESIS 21

5
GUERCINO
"Abraham Casting Out Hagar and Ishmael"

6
GUSTAVE DORÉ
"The Expulsion of Ishmael and His Mother"

7
GIOVANNI DOMENICO CERRINI
"Abraham Dismissing Hagar and Ishmael"

8
JOSEF DANHAUSER
"Abraham Verstößt Hagar und Ismael"

Q#10: “WHEN THE THREE VISITORS PROMISED ABRAHAM THAT SARAH WOULD BEAR A SON, SARAH WAS EAVESDROPPING. WHEN SARAH HEARD THEIR PROMISE, WHAT DID SHE DO?” A: SARAH LAUGHED

GENESIS 18

9
JAN PROVOOST
"Abraham, Sarah and the Angel"

10
JAMES TISSOT
"Sarah Hears and Laughs"

11
Source

12
Source

13
Source

14
VERONICA SOSA MCDONALD
"Sarah Laughed"

Q#11: “GOD TESTED ABRAHAM’S FAITH BY ORDERING HIM TO SACRIFICE HIS ONLY SON, AND ABRAHAM REASONED THAT GOD COULD RAISE HIM FROM THE DEAD. DOES THIS REMIND YOU OF ANY OTHER FATHER-AND-SON?” A: GOD THE FATHER SACRIFICED HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD, AND THEN HE RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD

GENESIS 22

15
JAN VICTORS
"Abraham and Isaac before the Sacrifice"

16
JAN VICTORS
"Abraham and Isaac before the Sacrifice"

17
"Abraham's Sacrifice"

18
REMBRANDT
"Sacrifice of Isaac"

19
CARAVAGGIO
"Sacrifice of Isaac"

20
CARAVAGGIO
"Sacrifice of Isaac"

21
PEDRO ORRENTE
"The Sacrifice of Isaac"

22
CORNELIS DE VOS & JAN WILDENS
"The Sacrifice of Abraham"

23
PIETER THIJS
"Sacrifice of Isaac"

24
HAROLD COPPING
"Abraham and Isaac"

25
"Abraham Embraces His Son Isaac
after Receiving Him Back from God"

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Source

Q#12: “WHAT DID ESAU GIVE HIS TWIN BROTHER JACOB IN EXCHANGE FOR A MEAL, AND WHAT DID JACOB STEAL FROM ESAU, WITH THEIR MOTHER REBECCA’S HELP, BY DECEIVING THEIR FATHER ISAAC?” A: THE FIRST-BORN’S BIRTHRIGHT, AND ISAAC’S BLESSING

GENESIS 25

27
JAN VICTORS
"Esau and the Mess of Pottage"

28
A.N. MIRONOV
"Esau and Jacob"

29
GIOACCHINO ASSERETO
"Jacob Offers a Dish of Lentels to Esau for the Birthright"

30
MATTHIAS STOM
"Esau Sells His Birthright to Jacob"

31
JAMES TISSOT
"The Mess of Pottage"

32
NICOLAS TOURNIER
"Esau Selling his Birthright to Jacob for a Pottage of Lentils"

33
GIUSEPPE BEZZUOLI
"Esau Sells His Birthright to Jacob"

GENESIS 27

34
GERRIT WILLEMSZ HORST
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

35
Detail
Source

36
JANUARIUS ZICK
"Isaac Blesses Jacob"

37
GOVERT FLINCK
"Isaac Blesses Jacob"

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38
NICOLAS-GUY BRENET
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

To be continued…

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[Red Badger]

Esau was red headed and hairy.

The descendants of Esau became the ‘Edomites’, who lived in what is now southern Israel and Jordan.

Edom in Hebrew means ‘red’.

They were traditional enemies of Israel for hundreds of years.

Edom (אדום) and Adam (אדם) are written almost the same way in Hebrew.

Esau/Edom is a symbol of a carnal, unsaved human. Like his ancestor Adam, he sold his authority for something of no value. Adam in the OT often times pictures the whole humanity (men, sons of Adam). In the same way the nation of Edom is a symbol of the unsaved non-believers.

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edom

[Hebrews 11:6]

Like his ancestor Adam, he sold his authority for something of no value.

And trying to reclaim it is impossible. All Sales Are Final.

[Red Badger]

https://www.thehouseofdavid.org/writings/2021/9/1/edom-and-the-last-days

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Some interesting speculations in that link. We shall see................

[No name given]

Beautiful and inspiring.

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Wonderful.

[etabeta]

Many, many great paintings. Thank you, Dan.
I like these quizzes a lot, a good refresher of our Bible stories.

[NorthMountain]

9) Call me Ishmael.

10) BWAHahahahahahaha!!! (Or maybe she just giggled. It doesn’t say.)

11) Huh ... gee, that’s a stumper. It couldn’t possibly be The Father and The Son, could it?

12) Varies by translation, but I always liked “a mess of pottage” ... in exchange for Isaac’s paternal blessing ... traditionally given only to the eldest son.

[Hebrews 11:6]

I like these quizzes a lot

So glad! There are four more weeks of quizzes a-comin', before FensterMania.

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11) Huh ... gee, that’s a stumper. It couldn’t possibly be The Father and The Son, could it?

WELL DONE!

[SisterK]

Like his ancestor Adam, he sold his authority for something of no value.

you just hit it out of the park

[Maudeen]

I love these quizzes!

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Good! Lots more to come....