e-Ministries   
   by Jon Justvig   
   March 1, 2013   
          
   Issue #: 16   
      
   Gen 11:1  And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.    
      
   Can you imagine if we were all fluent in one language, how much closer we   
   might be?  We would be similar in just that one aspect.   
      
   Gen 11:2  And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they   
   found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.  Gen 11:3  And they   
   said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And   
   they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.    
      
   And this my friends is how brink and slime came to begin making brick houses   
   and other such brick buildings.  It's amazing buildings of these types still   
   exists today, the same method.  Let say, if it's good, it's good!   
      
   Gen 11:4  And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top   
   may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad   
   upon the face of the whole earth.    
      
   Should we have build a tower to heaven?  Is that a good idea, do people   
   actually think you could build all the way to heaven and actually reach it?   
      
   Gen 11:5  And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the   
   children of men builded.    
   Gen 11:6  And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one   
   language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from   
   them, which they have imagined to do.  Gen 11:7  Go to, let us go down, and   
   there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's   
   speech.  Gen 11:8  So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face   
   of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.    
      
   Not a good idea to build a tower to heaven, now look, language is scattered.    
   We should leave well enough alone!   
      
   Gen 11:9  Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there   
   confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter   
   them abroad upon the face of all the earth.    
      
   Here we have it, the city of Babel.  I wonder if the word "babble" comes from   
   this word; it's often used in context when someone is talking and not making   
   any sense.  At least we found it's root!   
      
   The generations of Shem, one of the son's of Noah as follows:   
      
   Gen 11:10  These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old,   
   and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:    
      
   So Shem was ninty-eight when the flood came, and now here he is at a hundred   
   years old and still able to have children.  How awesome!   
      
   Gen 11:11  And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and   
   begat sons and daughters.    
   Gen 11:12  And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:    
      
   Five hundred years later, Arphaxad had a child named Salah.   
      
   Gen 11:13  And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three   
   years, and begat sons and daughters.  Gen 11:14  And Salah lived thirty years,   
   and begat Eber:    
      
   Salah lived thirty years and begat Eber, this sounds more like modern times to   
   me or Salah just started a little early.   
      
   Gen 11:15  And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years,   
   and begat sons and daughters.    
   Gen 11:16  And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:  Gen 11:17    
   And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat   
   sons and daughters.    
   Gen 11:18  And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:  Gen 11:19  And Peleg   
   lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and   
   daughters.    
   Gen 11:20  And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:  Gen 11:21    
   And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons   
   and daughters.    
   Gen 11:22  And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:  Gen 11:23  And   
   Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and   
   daughters.    
   Gen 11:24  And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:  Gen 11:25    
   And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat   
   sons and daughters.    
   Gen 11:26  And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.    
   Gen 11:27  Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor,   
   and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.    
      
   Reading through the linage from Shem, Noah's son, we have Arphax, Selah, Ebar,   
   Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nahor and Terah.  Soon we will discuss the history of   
   Abram, son of Terah.  Nahor and Haran were also sons of Terah.  Lot was then   
   born from Haran.   
      
   Gen 11:28  And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity,   
   in Ur of the Chaldees.    
      
   How tragic.  Haran, the son of Terah dies before his father.  The kingdom of   
   Chaldees is in Ur.  If you'd like to fast forward a bit, we come to:   
      
   Neh 9:7  Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him   
   forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;   
      
   This land Ur, is owned by the Chaldees and they renamed Abram to Abraham as   
   we'll discuss in later on in future articles.  Let's move back to the sons of   
   Terah.  Abram was chosen.  If you remember, Noah was also chosen, what will   
   Abram do in his life?   
      
   Gen 11:29  And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was   
   Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father   
   of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.   
      
   Abram took his wife Sarai and Nahor took his wife Milcah.  Haran has done   
   passed, as you see.  Iscah was the daughter-in-law of Terah.   
       
   Gen 11:30  But Sarai was barren; she had no child.   
      
   How barren.  This is the first announcement of a woman not able to bear a   
   child; she had no children, but we're going to see she wants one and we'll go   
   to great depths to have one.   
       
   Gen 11:31  And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's   
   son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth   
   with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they   
   came unto Haran, and dwelt there.    
      
   We move from Ur of the Chaldees to the land of Canaan and went in the land of   
   Haran.   
      
   Gen 11:32  And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah   
   died in Haran.    
      
   Terah was two hundred and five years and had passed.  Well, there it is folks,   
   more linage of our earliest ancestors from the beginning from Noah.  We'll   
   discuss Genesis Chapter 12 in the next issue.  I hope you have received a   
   blessing from this as you put your time into the word and appreciate my   
   thoughts as we read these chapters from the KJV of the Holy Bible together.   
      
      
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