Answers for Lesson 5. Gen ch 14-16

1. 
Creation
FLood
Scattering of the people
Patriarchs
Exodus
wandering
Conquest of Canaan
Judges
United Kingdom
Divided kingdom
Judah alone
Captivity
Return
years of silence
life of Christ
early church
letters to the christians

2.
Five cities of the plain, Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, Bela (Zoar) were brought under
the yoke of a coalition of kings of city-states located near the tigris and euphrates Rivers.
THese kings were Amraphel king of shinar, arioch king of ellasar, chedorlaomer king of elam, and 
Tidal king of GOiim. These four kings held the five kings of the plain of the salt sea under 
oppression for 12 years. In the thirteenth year the kings of the valley of the salt sea revolted
and provoked a response from the Mesopotamian kings the following year.


Chedorlaomer king of Elam came down and defeated a bunch of folks, at Kadesh-barnea (Enmishpat)
Kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled and fell. Some escaped into the mountains. Lot was taken captive.


3. Slime (tar) pits abounded in the valley of the salt sea.

4. Aner, Mamre, Eshcol.

5.  He took nothing vs 23. Except the portion for Aner, Mamre, and Eschol.

6. king of righteousness, peace......therefore he was the king of peace

7. he was appointed.

8. GOd promises him Canaan, and that his decendants shall be like the stars. Eliezer will not be
his heir. Ask how large their land will be. Ask if the river of Egypt is the Nile? no its the 
brooke of Egypt on the southern tip of Canaan.

9. Father of many nations.

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10. Why is it very important that male children be circumcised on the 8th day?

 Why the eighth day? In 1935, professor H. Dam proposed the name “vitamin K” for the factor in 
foods that helped prevent hemorrhaging in baby chicks. We now know vitamin K is responsible for the
 production (by the liver) of the element known as prothrombin. If vitamin K is deficient, there will
 be a prothrombin deficiency and hemorrhaging may occur. Oddly, it is only on the fifth through the 
seventh days of the newborn male’s life that vitamin K (produced by bacteria in the intestinal tract)
 is present in adequate quantities. Vitamin K, coupled with prothrombin, causes blood coagulation, which
 is important in any surgical procedure. Holt and McIntosh, in their classic work, Holt Pediatrics, observed
 that a newborn infant has “peculiar susceptibility to bleeding between the second and fifth days of life....
 Hemorrhages at this time, though often inconsequential, are sometimes extensive; they may produce serious 
damage to internal organs, especially to the brain, and cause death from shock and exsanguination” 
(1953, pp. 125-126). Obviously, then, if vitamin K is not produced in sufficient quantities until days five
 through seven, it would be wise to postpone any surgery until some time after that. But why did God specify day eight?

On the eighth day, the amount of prothrombin present actually is elevated above one-hundred percent of normal—and 
is the only day in the male’s life in which this will be the case under normal conditions. If surgery is to be performed,
 day eight is the perfect day to do it. Vitamin K and prothrombin levels are at their peak