There is a scripture in the book of Proverbs that reads: "As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come." Proverbs 26:2
A curse does not come upon people or nations for no reason, it comes as a result of something, and sin always lie at the root of it somewhere. Therefore, Isaac's descendants would have avoided years of great horror if they would have continued in doing God's will throughout history.
Another scripture in the book of Proverbs reads: "Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause?..." Proverbs 23:29
This scripture indicates also that things do not just happen without a cause. The Covenant of God with Abram was holy and pure, because God is holy and pure, and sin could not remain in the midst of holiness. Therefore, the Covenant carried a punishment [curse or penalty] for violations of the Covenant. When Abram sinned, it caused the penalty that God had already spoken, to be enforced.
The penalty was activated automatically, and passed on to Abram's descendants just like the sin of Adam automatically passed on to all generations of the earth. Any amount of sin, no matter how small it may have seemed to Abram, corrupted the whole Covenant agreement, and his seed.
When Abram committed adultery with Hagar, God had to remove the old man so that Abram could become a new man, or a new lump as the scripture describes it. Now we can understand better, why God had to remove Abram from being His partner, and Abraham had to replace him!
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