what started the conflict between the sons of Abraham?
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Ishmael was Abraham's son by his wife's servant, Hagar. Isaac was Abraham's son by his wife Sarah. When Hagar got pregnant she mocked Sarah because Sarah didn't have any children. When Isaac was born Ishmael mocked Isaac. Isaac was the son that God had promised Abraham he would have, but Ishmael was born because Abraham took matters into his own hands, and slept with his wife's maid. There's been conflict between the two brother's offspring since then.
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absolutely not. that was a time of war. there was a battle going on sir.\n\na battle that the Mushrikun started in the first place.\n\nplease read the verse all the way on top of the page. \n\nit says,\n\ncall to the way of your Lord with wisdom and sincere exhortaions and debate with them in manners that are most appropriate { An Nahl 16:125}
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Abraham lived in Hebron for a time.
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Good question! joahchun has a great one line answer. But I am the babbling type.\n\nAbraham was concerned for Lot and his family. He was negotiating to have them removed first. Abraham did not argue with God because he knew that God was incapable of lying. God had promised that through Isaac, Messiah would come. So, God had a problem... no Isaac, no Messiah. Scripture states that Abraham knew that what God was asking him to do was prophetic of the Messiah's sacrifice, so he was positive that God would raise Isaac in three days. But God did it differently and stopped the sacrifice and provided a subsititute instead.
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jonathan, the son of king saul
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God allowed Abraham's son to live.  This event is very important as it showed Abraham's faith and obedience to the one true God and was a precursor of events to come.  God knew that Abraham would  obey Him.  Fast forward to the time of Jesus.  God willingly put Himself  in the exact same position as Abraham .  His Son became the sacrifice so that all people could obtain forgiveness of sins, through Him.  The difference is; God allowed Abraham's son to live, but His own Son He allowed to be scourged and beaten and killed.  Not for His own well being, but  for all His children so that they might live.  Jesus was our Lamb, who was led to the slaughter, who overcame death and lives forevermore.\n\nDo you not understand this?\n\nedit**\nThis is the connection we are to draw from this event in history:  It's about sacrifice, faith, obedience, love, mercy, and the forgiveness of sins.\n Abraham and Isaac\n God and Jesus
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Scripture is silent about it, is the short answer.  No mention of a good or bad relationship is made.  (Gen. 11:27-32, 12:1-5).  \nSome have inferred that because he left, his family was upset with him; that was how a TV miniseries portrayed it, anyway.  It would have been difficult to leave a land his family had settled in, and perhaps they resented him taking off on the orders of a God they didn't know.  But Terah still had another married son, so he wasn't being left alone; maybe Terah was proud of his son's pioneering spirit and blessed him.  We simply don't know.    \nEither way, Abraham obeyed, and the history of man was changed forever.
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According to Christianity, Isaac was the one supposed to be sacrificed by Abrahan, his father.  But according to Islam, it was rather the older son Ishmael, who was Abraham's son by the slave Hagar.
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they conflict to eachother.
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No because the Jews came from a very distinct family line.  It started with Abraham and then through Jacob which God later names Israel. There were many people on the Earth when Abraham was around.
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Read in the Bible Genesis chapters 15-17. God promised Abraham that his decendents would be more numerous than the stars in the sky, yet his wife Sarah could not have children. When God told Abraham and Sarah that they would have a child, they laughed and didn't believe God, because they were past child bearing years. Sarah took matters into her own hands and gave her servant, Hagar, to Abraham to have a child by to 'fulfill' the prophecy. Hagar became pregnant and the child, Ishmael, is the one from whom the palestinians/arabs are descendent. Later, just as God said, Sarah became pregnant and bore Isaac. If you read Genesis 16:11-12 it tells how the angel spoke to Hagar when she was pregnant, about Ishmael. Is says "You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard your misery. He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers". Today that hostility is still there between the jewish and palestinian brothers. The hostility against Israel is there because Israel is God's chosen people and many people want that idea and that people destroyed. Even though Israel has rejected her Messiah, they are still those who were chosen by God and any nation that comes against Israel will suffer greatly for it. The land of Israel was given to them by God after they escaped Egypt, and they will fight to the death to keep the land that God has given to them, but the Palestinians believe that the land is theirs by right. This is the reason for most of the fighting today.
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We are told, in Matthew, that there are 14 generations between Abraham and David, between David and captivity to Babylon, and between Babylon and Christ. This equals 42 generations between Abraham and Christ. It is suggested that there are about 2,160 years between Abraham and Christ. 2,160 divided by 42 equals 51.4 years per generation. \n\nOther speculations about the length of a generation include 70 years, 100 years or even 40 years because that is how long the Israelites wandered in the wilderness. Some say the “final generation” began when Israel became a nation. Others contend that, while Israel becoming a nation was extremely important, it wasn’t until 1967, when it reclaimed Jerusalem, that it could be considered to have “bloomed.” It is clear that we cannot know for sure the timing of the Lord’s return. But it is obvious that we are close--close enough to count the days!
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It is Abraham. His wife Sarah and himself thought that she was too old but by God's grace she bore Isaac.
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>>>>I'm just curious who was historically the first on the land….\n\nThe trouble is that the question makes no sense. Both historically and mythologically the Jews were Arabs. They aren’t a different people, they are simply a different religious sect. Prior to the rise of Islam around 1500 years ago the Middle East and North Africa was home to thousands of different religions, and one of those religions was Judaism. The different sects were in a state of near perpetual war with their neighbours as well as with the great powers like Babylon and Egypt.\n\nFrom a purely historical perspective it seems that one of the numerous religious sects living in Palestine gained the upper hand, either through theocratic means or through warfare or a combination of the two. Gradually they absorbed all the other people of that region and formed the state of Israel.\n\nBear in mind also that even at the time of Christ present day Israel wasn’t entirely Jewish occupied or controlled. Much of it was in Samaria, the Samaritans being a Hebrew but not Jewish sect that didn’t accept the absolute sanctity of the temple.\n\nSo as you can see it’s not a simple case of saying the Arabs or Jews were there first. Historically Jews are Arabs and Jews never historically occupied all of what is now Israel.\n\n>>>> were the jews exiled or chased out or volunteerily left?\n\nA little from column A, a little from column B.\n\nRemember how at the time of Jesus Israel had been occupied by the Romans?  Needless to say the Jews didn’t like that, and the situation was further aggravated by the Romans doing various stupid and offensive things. Eventually the people of Jerusalem and much of Judeaea got fed up and rebelled. A lot of Romans were killed, a lot more Jews were killed, a lot of Jews killed themselves rather than be captured. \n\nThe Romans ascribed the unrest to a religious source and decided that enough was enough and The Temple was torn down. \n\nWithout the temple to sacrifice at the Jews had no strong reason to cling to Israel, and combined with Roman persecution they mostly decided to leave in several waves over the next few hundred years.\n\nSo you could say that it was a voluntary Exodus, but it was just as much a refugee movement.\n\n>>>>Why did the international community choose the land in dispute now?\n\nBasically because\n\n1)It is the traditional Jewish homeland and a lot of Jews wanted it back.\n2)Jews had a lot of political clout in Washington after the war.\n3) Jews had been regularly slaughtered in Europe over the last 2000 years, and the recent Nazi holocaust was by far the worst example. A lot of people tjought that it would be a good idea not let it keep happening, and decided the best way to do that would be to give the Jews their own country outside Europe.\n\nCombine those three factors and you see a simple solution to all problems/ The fact that Palestine was a British colony/protectorate at the time and Britain wanted to offload all its colonies as fast as possible helped no end.\n\nBenji Man  wrote:\n>>>>>Africa is the cradle of civ so I will go with an early nomadic african people.\n\nAfrica is not the cradle of civilisation. Asia is without a doubt the cradle of civilisation with a second nucleus in Central America.
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Islamic nations are descended from Ishmael, Abraham's son he had with Hagar, his family's maid-servant.  After Isaac was born of Sarah, Abraham's wife, Hagar & Ishmael were driven away by Sarah.\n\nGod gave Hagar and Ishmael refuge, but told Abraham that the descendants of Ishmael will forever be in conflict with the rest of the world, including the nation of Israel, descended from Isaac.
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Essentially the same as the names of Jacob/Israel's 12 sons-\n\nAsher\nBenjamin\nDan\nGad\nIssachar\nJoseph*\nJudah\nLevi\nNaphtali\nReuben\nSimeon\nZebulun\n\n*The sons of Joseph, Ephraim and Menasseh, were also given the status of independent tribes.
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A descendent of Noah through his son, Shem. Abraham is called the father of the Jewish nation and of other nations, because of the promise God made to him in Genesis 12:2-3 and Genesis 15:5. Isaac and Ishmael were his sons by his wife and her handmaiden, respectively. Jews and Christians are literally or spiritually related to Abraham through Isaac. The Moslem religion came through Ishmael's descendents.\nYou can read all about this in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible or in the Torah.\nGod bless you in your search. Buttercup