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<blockquote data-quote="satellitedriver" data-source="post: 954136" data-attributes="member: 1664"><p><span style="color: #006400"><strong>Not likely.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006400"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #006400"><strong></strong></span>If there is an explicit biblical explanation for this animosity, it goes all the way back to Abraham. The Jews are descendants of Abraham’s son Isaac. The Arabs are descendants of Abraham’s son Ishmael. With Ishmael being the son of a slave woman (<a href="http://ebible.com/query?utf=8%E2%9C%93&query=Genesis%2016%3A1-16&translation=ESV&redirect_iframe=http://www.gotquestions.org/eBible.html" target="_blank">Genesis 16:1-16</a>) and Isaac being the promised son who would inherit the blessings of Abraham (<a href="http://ebible.com/query?utf=8%E2%9C%93&query=Genesis%2021%3A1-3&translation=ESV&redirect_iframe=http://www.gotquestions.org/eBible.html" target="_blank">Genesis 21:1-3</a>), obviously there would be some animosity between the two sons. As a result of Ishmael’s mocking Isaac (<a href="http://ebible.com/query?utf=8%E2%9C%93&query=Genesis%2021%3A9&translation=ESV&redirect_iframe=http://www.gotquestions.org/eBible.html" target="_blank">Genesis 21:9</a>), Sarah talked Abraham into sending Hagar and Ishmael away (<a href="http://ebible.com/query?utf=8%E2%9C%93&query=Genesis%2021%3A11-21&translation=ESV&redirect_iframe=http://www.gotquestions.org/eBible.html" target="_blank">Genesis 21:11-21</a>). Likely, this caused even more contempt in Ishmael’s heart towards Isaac. An angel prophesied to Hagar that Ishmael would “live in hostility toward all his brothers” (<a href="http://ebible.com/query?utf=8%E2%9C%93&query=Genesis%2016%3A11-12&translation=ESV&redirect_iframe=http://www.gotquestions.org/eBible.html" target="_blank">Genesis 16:11-12</a>).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="satellitedriver, post: 954136, member: 1664"] [COLOR=#006400][B]Not likely. [/B][/COLOR]If there is an explicit biblical explanation for this animosity, it goes all the way back to Abraham. The Jews are descendants of Abraham’s son Isaac. The Arabs are descendants of Abraham’s son Ishmael. With Ishmael being the son of a slave woman ([URL="http://ebible.com/query?utf=8%E2%9C%93&query=Genesis%2016%3A1-16&translation=ESV&redirect_iframe=http://www.gotquestions.org/eBible.html"]Genesis 16:1-16[/URL]) and Isaac being the promised son who would inherit the blessings of Abraham ([URL="http://ebible.com/query?utf=8%E2%9C%93&query=Genesis%2021%3A1-3&translation=ESV&redirect_iframe=http://www.gotquestions.org/eBible.html"]Genesis 21:1-3[/URL]), obviously there would be some animosity between the two sons. As a result of Ishmael’s mocking Isaac ([URL="http://ebible.com/query?utf=8%E2%9C%93&query=Genesis%2021%3A9&translation=ESV&redirect_iframe=http://www.gotquestions.org/eBible.html"]Genesis 21:9[/URL]), Sarah talked Abraham into sending Hagar and Ishmael away ([URL="http://ebible.com/query?utf=8%E2%9C%93&query=Genesis%2021%3A11-21&translation=ESV&redirect_iframe=http://www.gotquestions.org/eBible.html"]Genesis 21:11-21[/URL]). Likely, this caused even more contempt in Ishmael’s heart towards Isaac. An angel prophesied to Hagar that Ishmael would “live in hostility toward all his brothers” ([URL="http://ebible.com/query?utf=8%E2%9C%93&query=Genesis%2016%3A11-12&translation=ESV&redirect_iframe=http://www.gotquestions.org/eBible.html"]Genesis 16:11-12[/URL]). [/QUOTE]
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