Welcome to After The Fact, the Knowing Face mini episode where we look to take a big

question and address it in just a few minutes. Typically, the questions we consider will line

up with our larger topic for the season. That's certainly true. Far-time today, we're discussing

Genesis 12 through 50. Knowing Faith this season and joining us today is Dr. Adam Hall. Dr.

Hall is an assistant professor of Old Testament interpretation at Voice College at Southern

Seminary and a regular contributor to daily dose of Hebrew. Dr. Hall, welcome to After The Fact.

Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Good to be here. Here's the big question for us. How do you

Hebrew embattic statements in the story of Abraham help us understand the concept of offspring

in that story? Yeah, great question. So you mentioned the emphatic elements. Hebrew as a language

is a rather poetic language and that's one of the things that drew me to it. You just get the

expression of idioms in various ways or these emphatic statements that we'll that we'll look at

today. And so there are some interesting features in the original language in these chapters. And

the ones that I want to pursue today, you mentioned are the emphatic statements and particularly

centered around this idea of offspring in the Abrahamic narratives. And so just by way of a

quick background, many of the listeners will know that offspring was one of the promises that

God gave to Abraham in his covenant relationship. So a couple of passages here, Genesis 12,

two, God tells Abraham that he will make of him a great nation. I think implying that he will have

children. Lots of them, right? In Genesis 15, one through six, God tells Abraham that his offspring

will be as many as the stars in the heavens. And of course, again, in Genesis 17, after the

Ishmael debacle, God says, I will make you exceedingly fruitful and I will make you into nations and

kings will come from you. So all in all what you have here is this clear statement that God is

going to bless Abraham with offspring. Even though at this point he and Sarah have had no biological

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