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The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 11:10
These are the generations of Shem. The new section, opening with the usual formula (cf. Genesis 2:4; Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:9; Genesis 10:1), reverts to the main purpose of the inspired narrative, which is to trace the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 11:10-26
From Shem to Abram. I. THE SEPARATION OF THE GODLY SEED. The souls that constitute the Church of God upon the earth are always, as these Hebrew patriarchs— 1. Known to God; and that not merely in the mass, but as indivi…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 11:10-26
The order of grace is 1. Determined by God, and not by man. 2. Arranged after the Spirit, and not according to the flesh. 3. Appointed for the world's good as well as for the Church's safety.—W. HOMILIES BY R.A. REDFORD
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 11:10-32
Divine traditions. A genealogy of Shem and of Terah, in order to set forth clearly the position of Abraham and that of his nephew Lot, and their connection with Ur of the Chaldees and Canaan. The chosen family is about…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 11:11
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters (concerning whom Scripture is silent, as not being included in the holy line). Genesis 11:12, Genesis 11:13 And Arphaxad lived five…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 11:26
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram. First named on account of his spiritual pre-eminence. If Abram was Terah's eldest son, then, as Abram was seventy-five years of age when Terah died (Genesis 12:4), Terah's…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 11:27-32
PART III THE PATRIARCHAL AGE OF THE WORLD. CH. 11:27-50:26. 7. THE GENERATIONS OF TERAH (CH. 11:27-25:11).
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 11:27
Now (literally, and, intimating the close connection of the present with the preceding section) these are the generations—the commencement of a new subdivision of the history (Keil), and neither the winding-up of the fo…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 11:28
And Haran died before his father. Literally, upon the face of his father; ἐνώπιον τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ (LXX); while his father was alive (Munster, Luther, Calvin, Rosenmüller); perhaps also in his father's presence (K…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 11:29
And Abram and Nahor took them wives (cf. Genesis 6:2): the name of Abram's wife was Sarai. "My princess," from sarah, to rule (Gesenius, Lange); "Strife" (Kalisch, Murphy): "Jah is ruler" (Furst). The LXX. write σάρα,…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 11:30
But Sarai was barren; she had no child. Perhaps in contrast to Milcah, who by this time had begun to have a family (Murphy).
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 11:31
And Terah took—an act of pure human volition on the part of Terah (Kalisch); under the guidance of God's ordinary providence (Keil); but more probably, as Abram was called in Ur (vide infra), prompted by a knowledge of…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 11:31
The migration of the Terachites. I. THE DEPARTURE OF THE EMIGRANTS. The attendant circumstances of this migration—the gathering of the clan, the mustering of the flocks, the farewells and benedictions exchanged with rel…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 11:32
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years. So that if Abram was born in Terah's 70th year, Terah must have been 145 when Abram left Haran, and must have survived that departure sixty years (Kalisch, Dykes);…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 12:1-5
EXPOSITION
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 12:1-5
The preparations of grace. We may call this the genesis of the kingdom of God. I. It is FOUNDED in the word of the Divine covenant, the faith given by Divine grace to individuals, the separation unto newness of life. II…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 12:1
Now the Lord. Jehovah = the God of salvation, an indication that the narrative is now to specially concern itself with the chosen seed, and the Deity to discover himself as the God of redemption. The hypothesis that Gen…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 12:1-5
Designed to trace the outward development of God's kingdom on the earth, the narrative now concentrates its attention on one of the foregoing Terachites, whose remarkable career it sketches with considerable minuteness…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 12:1
The voices of God at the opening of the world's eras. I. AT THE OPENING Or CREATION. "And God said, let there be Light." II. AT THE OPENING OF REDEMPTION. "And God said, I will put enmity between thee and the woman," &c…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 12:4
The Chaldaean emigrant. I. THE CALL OF GOD. Whether spoken in a dream or distinctly articulated by a human form, the voice which summoned Abram to emigrate from Ur was recognized by the patriarch to be Divine; and so is…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 12:4
So (literally, and) Abram departed—from Ur of the Chaldees, or from Haran (vide supra)—as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him. Lot's name being repeated here because of his connection with the ensuing na…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 12:5
And Abram took (an important addition to the foregoing statement, intimating that Abram did not go forth as a lonely wanderer, but accompanied by) Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the substance—recush,…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 12:6-9
EXPOSITION
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 12:6
And Abram passed through—literally, passed over, or traveled about as a pilgrim (cf. Hebrews 11:9) in—the land unto (or as far as) the place of Sichem. A prolepsis for the place where the city Shechem (either built by o…