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Names II
Question | Answer |
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31. Reuben | Committed adultery with his father’s concubine Bilhah, forfeiting the birthright. Intervened for Joseph’s life when the sons of Jacob sought to kill him. He pledged the life of himself and his sons when Jacob was unwilling to let Benjamin go to Egypt. |
32. Simeon | Took part with Levi in avenging his sister Dinah against the Shechemites, thus bringing trouble on all Jacob’s family. |
33. Levi | Took part with Simeon in avenging his sister Dinah against the Shechemites, thus bringing trouble on all Jacob’s family. From Levi comes the Levitical priesthood. |
34. Judah | Saved Joseph so that his life was spared. Met by a "prostitute" his daughter-in-law Tamar whom he impregnated. Reuben forfeited the birth-right for incest; Simeon and Levi forfeited the birth-right for conduct against Shechem; Judah leadership of the firs |
35. Issachar | Son of Leah |
36. Zebulun | Youngest son of Leah. |
37. Joseph | Falsely accused of rape by Potiphar’s wife and thrown into prison. While in prison he Interpreted the two dreams of Pharaoh of Egypt. Pharaoh appointed Joseph second in Egypt. Brought the “house of Israel” into Egypt. |
38. Benjamin | His mother died in giving him birth |
39. Dan | Son of Bilhah |
40. Naphtali | Son of Bilhah |
41. Gad | Son of Zilpah |
42. Asher | Son of Zilpah |
43. Dinah | Daughter of Jacob and Leah. Seduced by Shechem, son of Hamor, when Jacob's camp was in the nearby countryside. This led to the terrible revenge of Simeon and Levi in massacring all the Shechemites. |
44. Shechem | When Jacob returned from Paddan-aram he settled at Shechem and purchased land from the sons of Hamor. Raped Dinah, and settled with Jacob to marry Dinah, yet was vengefully murdered along with all his settlement by Simeon and Levi. |
45. Tamar | The wife of Judah’s son Er;then married Onan and on his death Judah promised to her son Shelah but no happen. She avenged herself by dressing as a prostitute and lying with her father-in-law Judah. One of the five women mentioned in the line of Jesus. |
46. Er | The eldest son of Judah. The first husband of Tamar. Slain by God because of his wickedness. |
47. Onan | Second son of Judah. Second husband of Tamar. Like his brother Er, God slew him because of his wickedness. |
48. Shelah | Third son of Judah. Promised to Tamar as her husband but never fulfilled. |
49. Perez and Zerah | The twin sons shamefully born to Judah by Tamar, his own his daughter‐in‐law |
50. Asenath | The wife given to Joseph by Pharaoh in Egypt. |
51. Manasseh | Joseph’s first son. His name means forget. One of the twelve tribes to inherit the promised land. |
52. Ephraim | Joseph’s second son. His name means twice fruitful. One of the twelve tribes to inherit the promised land. |
53. Moses | At 40 years he slew an Egyptian for beating an Israelite, and fearing recompense fled to Midian. There he married Zipporah, daughter of Reuel, a Midianite priest. God appeared to him on Mt. Horeb in a burning bush and appointed him deliverer of His peo |
54. Reuel / Jethro | Moses' father-in-law and priest of Midian. In Exodus 18, he advises Moses at Sinai to set judges over subordinate legal cases, leaving Moses with only the weightier cases (“The Jethro Principle”). |
55. Zipporah | Wife of Moses. |
56. Gershom | The son whom Zipporah circumcised in order to save Moses from being killed. |
57. Aaron | Moses’s brother and spokesman, whom was three years older. Was given the high priesthood for himself and his descendants. Died on Mount Hor after the transference of his office to his son, Eleazar. |
58. Miriam | The sister of Moses and Aaron. She and Aaron complained against Moses for marrying a Cushite, and was subsequently struck with leprosy, but later cured. She is a prophetess who led the Israelite women while she sang the song of praise and victory. |
59. Nadab | The first son of Aaron. As priest he and his brother were smitten by fire from the Lord. Their offense was kindling the incense in their censers with fire not taken from the altar. |
60. Abihu | The second son of Aaron. As priest he and his brother were smitten by fire from the Lord. Their offense was kindling the incense in their censers with fire not taken from the altar. |