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In the tanakh Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov are the three patriarchs of the Jewish people, beginning with a covenant with Avraham (Gen 12, 15, 17) and culminating in God revealing himself and giving his torah (Ex 20) to the family of Israel (i.e. Yaakov, after God's messenger renamed him (Gen 32)). God speaks directly to these three patriarchs.
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There are many ways to determine the quantity of occurrences of a particular phrase in the Bible. The way I often do it is:
Go to www.blueletterbible.org.
You will see a box under "Bible Dictionary/ Search."
Within quotes, type in the word or phrase you would like to search for. For example: "God of Israel." This will yield results for that exact phrase.
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A Puritan Answer
This answer is an attempt at an exposition of a comment that Richard Sibbes makes in his book Josiah's Reformation:
God doth always hear, though he seemeth not to hear sometimes, to increase our importunity. Christ heard the woman of Canaan at first; but yet, to increase her importunity, he gave her the repulse and denial, and with the ...
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Before Moses, there is possibly no other name more appropriate for God other than the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The reason is that God called Abraham out to populate a land given to a people that would serve him and then repeated the promise to Isaac and Jacob. The promise was to select a 'certain race', and how this particular line along that race ...
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