Question:
Can someone please tell me a couple important facts about the israelites, Abraham, Issac, Noah, and Jacob?
?
2012-10-06 12:41:44 UTC
Please if you could keep your hatred of christianity to your self, I'm not religious but my grandfather is and I promised him I'd draw out some images and things about these guys and put them on cards so we can do like trading cards for our youth group and the kids. So, if you could, Tell me like 5 good facts about each of them, each of their symbols(like noah had the arch), and, that's it. Thanks for your help. =)
24 answers:
chick b
2012-10-06 15:48:31 UTC
hi i do not want to upset you but you are referring to characters out of the bible and the bible was written 300 years after jesus died and the stories and characters are made up stories they are not true they never happened so in reality i do not want you filling children-s minds with lies and fictional stories that never happened ok that is why today the majority of us who were originally christians turned to atheism because of the lies we were told as little innocent children think about it ok.
the lantern
2012-10-06 15:32:36 UTC
Who was the lousiest evangelist for 100 yrs in the book of Genesis? Noah/ who shut a door that the builder couldn't open? God (the ark) When did animal learn to hibernate? On the Ark/ Was Noah an Israelite? No, Why he predated all the population of the middle east. What was the last thing left on the ark after it rested? Wine after all the animals had scattered and family dispersed the second thing Noah did was go into his tent and got drunk!

Who is a spiritual father in three different faiths? Abraham (Muslims, Jews and Christians)

Who was the first baby to be circumcised? Abraham's son Isaac

Who slept with a rock as his pillow and had a dream of a ladder that reached heaven? Jacob

Was Jacob most of his life a happy man with many children or a distrustful man? Distrustful because

many didn't treat him fairly. Hope this helps
Horsense
2012-10-06 14:18:19 UTC
'Israel' is the name that God gave to Jacob when he was about 97 years old.



Isaac was Jacob's father, so, not an Israelite.



Abraham was Isaac's father, so also not an Israelite.

He was the tenth generation from Noah through Shem (one of Noah's 3 sons)

and was born 352 years after the Deluge/Flood, in 2018 B.



So, only one of the men you named was an Israelite . . . the head of the Israelites, in fact.

What they all had in common, though, was that they were each of them faithful servants of God.





For more information, I suggest reading the Bible verses cited at the bottom of the pages of this *online*book, as well as some surrounding Scriptures. The stories themselves simplify what the Scriptures say:



"My Book of Bible Stories"

chapters 8 through 19, 21, -&- 25:

8: Giants in the Earth

9: Noah Builds an Ark

10: The Great Flood

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/bible-stories/part-1-creation-to-the-flood/

11: The First Rainbow

12: Men Build a Big Tower

13: Abraham—A Friend of God

14: God Tests Abraham’s Faith

15: Lot’s Wife Looked Back

16: Isaac Gets a Good Wife

17: Twins Who Were Different

18: Jacob Goes to Haran

19: Jacob Has a Big Family

21: Joseph’s Brothers Hate Him

25: The Family Moves to Egypt

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/bible-stories/part-2-the-flood-to-the-deliverance-from-egypt/



You may also get some ideas from the pictures therein. (:
anonymous
2012-10-06 16:13:34 UTC
Belief and fact may be two different things.So you have to analyse if the belief is based on fact or the fact is based on belief.

In islam we have to obliged to base our religion on fact including the existence of God.

Heres what I can give mentioning them collectively:

1.They were all rigteous god-fearing individuals

2. They all submitted to God

3. They called the people to the worship of the One true God

4. They warned their people against polytheism

5. Those who disobeyed them were ultimately punished and destroyed

Individually:

Israelites: Were the descendants of Isaac, the sons of Jacob, they followed the religion of their forefathers Abraham and Ismail peace be upon them all, their story is mentioned in the Quran. Symbol could be a mount where they took a covenant

Abraham: the father of all the prophets, had Ismail and Isaac, his stories are mentioned in the Quran

Isaac: A son of Abraham, younger than his brother Ismail, son of sarah, his story is mentioned in the Quran. Symbol could be broken idols - he opposed polytheism strongly, and was almost the only monotheist among his time.

Jacob: from the descendants of Abraham, had 12 sons among them Joseph and Benjamin, was a very patient man, his story is mentioned in the Quran. Sheapherds staff - because he was a shepherd of his flock.

Noah: Lived hundreds of years, built an ark, saved along with the believers in a great flood, his story is mentioned in the Quran. Symbol ark as you suggested



Please avoid depicting them as its really disrespectful, especially that these men were pious individuals and such depictions would never do any justice to them and their legacies.
anonymous
2012-10-06 15:52:57 UTC
Why can you not do this work and studying for yourself? Those are all people of the Old Testament and can be found in Genesis and Exodus - therefore, it wouldn't take long to read those two books of the Bible for yourself and draw out the facts. Don't be lazy. It is not our job to do your work for you.



You promised you Grandfather you would draw out some images and things about these guys - so do what you have promised and stop putting heavy burdens on other people, lazy bones!
John 17:3; Ps 83:18; Amos 3:7
2012-10-06 15:52:30 UTC
I know of a perfect site, that has EXACTLY what you are needing.

They are wonderful cards, for the children.

Bible cards; 23 to keep, learn from, collect, trade.

You will have to download, and print.

Besides cut, I tape the edges. And trim the sides clean and smooth.

Enjoy!

My oldest grandchild, Loves them. She esp., likes David.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B50CgNO9tCMiQVpLcDRSWVJlZ1k/edit?pli=1





It has Abraham, and Noah.

The Israelites included, are Jonathan, Daniel, Ruth, Ester, Hezekiah,

Jeremiah, Solomon, Joseph, Isaiah, Job, Samuel, David, Jonah,

Josiah, Paul, Moses, Nehemiah, Jonathan.

Others are Abel, Peter, and Timothy.
anonymous
2012-10-06 16:01:25 UTC
Israelites:

1. People of God

2. Jews

3.. Desendants of Jacob, and Isaac

4. Twelve tribes

5. (Tribe of) Judah is ancestor of Jesus Christ



Abraham

1. Father of Isaac who became his heir, mother was Sarah

2. Father of Ishmael, whose mother was Hagar

3. patriarch, man of faith, justified by his faith

4. married half sister, Sarah

5. Became father of Isaac at age 100 when Sarah was 90



Noah

1. Had great faith to obey God in the midst of an evil society that was laughing at him for building an ark because they didn't believe in God and saw no water.

2. He had 3 sons, Shem, Ham, Japheth.

3. He took 7 of every clean animal and 2 of everything else onto the ark

4. He and his family of 8 (his 3 sons all had wives), were in the ark for 10 months and 27days. (Gen. 8 14).

5. Noah built an altar of thanksgiving after leaving the ark using one of every clean animal and bird.



Jacob

1. Was the father of the twelve tribes of Israel.

2. His name was changed to Israel when he had a wrestling match with an angel during the night.

3. He was a twin. His brother was Esau. Esau had red hair, very hairy, but Jacob was not hairy. Esau was a hunter, Jacob was more of a homebody.

4. Jacob fled their home because of offending Esau and also to find a wife among his cousins.

5. Jacob fell in love with Rachael, but his faither in law tricked him and gave him Leah first. He ended up working for Laban his father in law for 14 years to pay for the two wives.
?
2012-10-06 14:03:21 UTC
HAHAHAHA trading cards? Wow that's lame enough to drive at least one poor little member out of the church. Does he have any idea how 90's and under ten trading cards are? Aren't you going to stop him from taking this social suicide move? Hilarious!

Oh well. It's been two year since I was a Christian and can no longer remember if Jacob beget Issaac of the other way around. Does it really matter, though? I could get up right now and look it up, but.... meh. Just go to biblegateway.com, and turn to chapter 10 or so in Genesis, give or take. Their stories take up about 10 or so pages, not really that much. It's Joseph's story that's much longer I think.
Laredo
2012-10-06 14:30:26 UTC
Words of wisdom:



Don't go there if you are too lazy to read your Bible and look up the information for yourself. You can learn a lot.



Noah did not have the arch -- he built the ark.
Ambi valent
2012-10-06 14:54:52 UTC
Noah is earliest of the people you refer to. It's up to you what you choose as a 'symbol'; there's nothing to attribute a symbol to any of them, so make of the stories what you will. Also, none of these people were Israelites - that wasn't a term used until Jacob was renamed Israel and then had children - they were the original Israelites.



Noah didn't have an arch. He built an ark to keep him, his family and male and female of each animal safe from the flood. He sent out a raven to see if it could find dry land - it couldn't. Later he sent a dove - it didn't find land the first time, but the second time it brought back an olive twig. After the flood, Gd gave the rainbow as a promise that such a thing would never happen again. This is, obviously, a myth (hardly anyone believes it's literally true, not least because no structure resembling what's described as the ark could have contained all the animals, birds, reptile, amphibians, invertebrates etc on earth).



Abraham was told by Gd to go on a journey - in fact his father had started the journey from Ur, but they'd come to a halt. He was actually called Abram at this point and had a wife called Sarai. After many years, they had no children, and Sarai told Abraham to have sex with her servant Hagar so he could have a child. The resulting child was Ishmael. Later, Gd told him he had to be circumcised as a mark of the covenant with Gd, and their names were changed to Abraham and Sarah. They then had a son, Isaac (NB spelling). There's a whole story about Sarah getting jealous and having Hagar and Ishmael sent away - they nearly died. And Abraham was told by Gd to take Isaac to Mt Moriah and sacrifice him but at the last minute Gd stops him doing it and shows him a ram caught in a thicket to be killed instead. This is the mark of the absolute forbidding of child sacrifice which was common in surrounding groups. There's tons more to the Abraham story, but that'll do for your 'five facts'.



Isaac has fewer stories about him. After the Binding of Isaac (i.e. his preparation as a sacrifice) and his survival, the next event is when his father sends back home to Mesopotamia to get a wife for him. Isaac and Rebekah didn't have children for ages (as you can see, infertility is not a new problem) but Isaac prays and Rebekah then has twin sons, Esau and Jacob. Isaac, old and blind, intends to give Esau, the older twin, his blessing but Rebekah favours Jacob and helps him trick Isaac into giving him, Jacob, the blessing that passes the birthright to him.



Jacob, after all that, is sent back to Mesopotamia to the family, to find a wife. En route he has a vision of a ladder reaching into the sky, with angels going up and down, and of Gd blessing him. Arriving at his uncle's town, he meets Rachel, his daughter, at the well and falls in love. The uncle, Laban, makes him work his socks off with the sheep in order to win Rachel's hand in marriage, but then tricks him so he has married Leah, the older daughter. He has to work some more to get Rachel as well. Through the two of them and their servants he ends up with twelve sons and one daughter, according to the biblical account (but then women are often discounted....). The family then head off back to where Jacob had been born (Canaan) and en route Jacob, hearing that Esau is coming to meet him and afraid, sends his family back over a river but he returns to sort out all the possessions. While he's on this bank of the river, he finds himself wrestling with someone - man, angel, Gd, who knows? But after this, which results in a permanent limp, he takes the name "Isra-el" meaning Gd-wrestler. There's a whole story about one of the sons, Joseph, which (to cut a very long story short) ends up with the whole family going to Egypt where Joseph is one of pharaoh's trusted men. But Jacob/Israel asks to be buried in Canaan, and he is, in the cave of Machpelah.



And, just finally, I have no notion why you referred to a hatred of Christianity. These stories are the stories of the forefathers of the Jews, and I am a Jew.
?
2012-10-06 13:44:53 UTC
None of them are Israelites. Jacob's name was changed to Israel and his 12 sons were the fathers of the tribes of Israel. Noah was quite a ways before Abraham, Isaac was Abraham's son and Jacob was Isaac's son. Open up the book of Genesis and you'll find all you need to know about them.
anonymous
2012-10-06 14:24:18 UTC
Well Abraham smashed the idols of his father, and changed his name from Abram.



I imagine you could do something cute with the idol smashing and make it a metaphor for something like smashing bad things etc. Of course Noah is associated with the ark and you could make emphasis on obeying your elders, the importance of life and the natural world. etc. The other two I am not sure about.





Good luck.



And God will really bless you for doing such a sweet thing for your grandfather and the kids.



God bless.
Higgs Boson
2012-10-06 15:46:19 UTC
No hateful comments, just the facts. None of them exist and if they had they would be considered delusional. There are no other facts about them. There are stories but I think Harry Potter would be way more interesting and even that is pretty lame.
anonymous
2012-10-06 14:25:13 UTC
You would do better to read them for yourself than trust the answers from people who really are ignorant of the scriptures and sounds like the blind leading the blind.
GoodIntentions
2012-10-06 16:17:00 UTC
Read the Bible for yourself. Yah loves you.
Kjw47
2012-10-06 13:48:47 UTC
All of the men you named, were servants of the only true allmighty God--they all served a single being God named YHWH(Jehovah)
anonymous
2012-10-06 14:18:52 UTC
Israelites is usually capitalized.
?
2012-10-06 14:14:09 UTC
All men here were justified by faith through there trials and tribulations
#AllforWhatsRight
2012-10-06 15:20:12 UTC
The Israelites were so loved by God that God inspired Solomon to write a love story about the epidomy of love. In the end there seemed not to be much good in most of them because God had to reject them as a whole and pick fromthe nations a symbolic Israelite nation from the gentiles to rule in heaven with Jesus in his Kingdomover the earth.

They celebrated being bought out of Egypt. It even came about on this very day that all the armies of Jehovah went out of the land of Egypt. It is a night for observance with regard to Jehovah for bringing them out of the land of Egypt. With regard to Jehovah this night is one for observance on the part of all the sons of Israel throughout their generations.”—Exodus 12:40-42.

He said: “This is what you are to say to the house of Jacob and to tell the sons of Israel, ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, that I might carry you on wings of eagles and bring you to myself. And now if you will strictly obey my voice and will indeed keep my covenant, then you will certainly become my special property out of all other peoples, because the whole earth belongs to me. And you yourselves will become to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’”—Exodus 19:3-6.

17 The Most High God did not force this covenant upon the Israelites. He left them free to choose whether to enter a covenant with him or not, even though he had saved them from Egypt and the Red Sea. Become a “special property” to Jehovah? Become “a kingdom of priests and a holy nation” to Him? Yes, that is what the Israelites then desired to do. Hence, when Moses told the representative men of the people about God’s proposed covenant, then, as we read, “all the people answered unanimously and said: ‘All that Jehovah has spoken we are willing to do.’” Moses now reported the decision of the people to Jehovah, who then proceeded with the establishing of the covenant as agreed to.—Exodus 19:7-9.



Abraham

The name given by Jehovah to Abram (meaning “Father Is High (Exalted)”) when he was 99 years old, and when God was reaffirming His promise that Abraham’s offspring would become many.—Ge 17:5.

Abraham was considered by God to be his friend.

, Abraham proved to be a man of faith in Jehovah God, even as his forefathers Shem and Noah; and as a consequence, he earned the reputation “the father of all those having faith while in uncircumcision.” (Ro 4:11) Since true faith is based on accurate knowledge, Abraham may have received his understanding by personal association with Shem (their lives overlapped by 150 years). Abraham knew and used the name of Jehovah; to quote him: “Jehovah the Most High God, Producer of heaven and earth,” “Jehovah, the God of the heavens and the God of the earth.”—Ge 14:22; 24:3.



Isaac

God said he would establish his covenant with Isaac as a covenant to time indefinite to his seed after him. God gave him to Abraham and Sarah and told them a Year in advance. Even though they were old.



Noah was faultless Among His Contemporaries. He too proved to be a friend of Gods'. He did as God ask and preached about the end that system and the destruction of the wicked, much like The Jehohah's Witnesses do today. mathew 24:14 Noah saved his amily through the flood and filled thearth again with people.



Jacob

Jehovah God loved. Accordingly, the second-born Jacob was holding the heel of Esau at their birth; hence the name Jacob, meaning “One Seizing the Heel.” (Ge 25:22-26) Jehovah thus demonstrated his ability to detect the genetic bent of the unborn and to exercise his foreknowledge and right to select beforehand whom he chooses for his purposes; yet he in no way predetermines the final destiny of individuals.—Ro 9:10-12; Ho 12:3.

In contrast to his father’s favorite son Esau, who was a wild, restless, wandering type of huntsman, Jacob is described as “a blameless [Heb., tam] man, dwelling in tents,” one who led a quiet pastoral life and was dependable to look after domestic affairs, one who was especially loved by his mother. (Ge 25:27, 28) This Hebrew word tam is used elsewhere to describe those approved of God. For example, “bloodthirsty men hate anyone blameless,” yet Jehovah gives assurance that “the future of [the blameless] man will be peaceful.” (Pr 29:10; Ps 37:37) The
Guru Hank
2012-10-06 14:47:46 UTC
They none of them existed.
Moi
2012-10-06 13:35:16 UTC
go here and navigate to each name one a time



http://www2.mf.no/bibelprog/easton?tofrom=a



for example>>>>



http://www2.mf.no/bibelprog/easton?word=abraham
Paul R
2012-10-06 15:03:20 UTC
They could all do magic.
IRX120ISBEAST
2012-10-06 13:41:15 UTC
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Basics/ye_must_be_born_again.htm
anonymous
2012-10-06 12:43:31 UTC
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