That Awesome and Important Calling

Our covenant God, sovereignly but also graciously, brought Abraham into a land where the descendants of Ham dwelt, and where they owned every inch of the land of Canaan. Thus, when Abraham's wife, Sarah - who had in her 90th year brought forth for Abraham his son Isaac - died when she was 127 years old, Abraham had not one square inch of land wherein to bury her. Therefore Abraham had to contact the descendants of Ham, in order to be able to buy a place where he could bury Sarah. In order to...