Genesis 36:15–19
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
There are certain chapters in the Bible that modern readers, and I suspect many preachers, tend to treat like long stretches of uninteresting highway. We put the car on cruise control, our eyes glaze over, and we just try to get to the next scenic overlook. They are seen as the inspired equivalent of a phone book, full of names we cannot pronounce, belonging to people we do not know. This is to read the Bible with secular, materialist eyes. They are the load-bearing walls of the entire biblical narrative. To skip them is to admire the paint while being ignorant of the foundation. And Genesis 36 is one of the most important of these foundational chapters. It is the detailed record of what happened to the other brother. It is the history of the line that God, in His inscrutable sovereignty, set aside.