_NOW THE LORD HAD SAID UNTO ABRAM, GET THEE OUT OF THY COUNTRY, AND FROM THY KINDRED, AND FROM THY FATHER'S HOUSE, UNTO A LAND THAT I WILL SHEW THEE:_ Now the Lord had said unto Abram. The Septuagint has _ EIPE_ (G2036)], said; and the continuous course of this history leads to a belief that it was... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I WILL MAKE OF THEE A GREAT NATION, AND I WILL BLESS THEE, AND MAKE THY NAME GREAT; AND THOU SHALT BE A BLESSING:_ I will make of thee a great nation. Nothing was more improbable at the time, since he was childless (Genesis 11:30). Yet this promise was verified in his numerous posterity, the A... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I WILL BLESS THEM THAT BLESS THEE, AND CURSE HIM THAT CURSETH THEE: AND IN THEE SHALL ALL FAMILIES OF THE EARTH BE BLESSED._ I will bless them that bless thee. His friends and his enemies would be regarded as the friends and enemies of God, who would reward their kindness and avenge their wron... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO ABRAM DEPARTED, AS THE LORD HAD SPOKEN UNTO HIM; AND LOT WENT WITH HIM: AND ABRAM WAS SEVENTY AND FIVE YEARS OLD WHEN HE DEPARTED OUT OF HARAN._ So Abram departed - primitive and simple-hearted, at an age when he would not be apt to be imposed upon by an illusion of the fancy, but would calmly... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABRAM TOOK SARAI HIS WIFE, AND LOT HIS BROTHER'S SON, AND ALL THEIR SUBSTANCE THAT THEY HAD GATHERED, AND THE SOULS THAT THEY HAD GOTTEN IN HARAN; AND THEY WENT FORTH TO GO INTO THE LAND OF CANAAN; AND INTO THE LAND OF CANAAN THEY CAME._ And Abram took ... and they went forth to go into the la... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABRAM PASSED THROUGH THE LAND UNTO THE PLACE OF SICHEM, UNTO THE PLAIN OF MOREH. AND THE CANAANITE WAS THEN IN THE LAND._ The place of Sichem - or Shechem, a pastoral valley then unoccupied (cf. Genesis 33:18), and in which the future city of Shechem stood. There is a valley called Wady Mukhna... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD APPEARED UNTO ABRAM, AND SAID, UNTO THY SEED WILL I GIVE THIS LAND: AND THERE BUILDED HE AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD, WHO APPEARED UNTO HIM._ Unto thy seed ... give this land. From that time Canaan became "The Land of Promise." God was dealing with Abram not in his private and personal cap... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE REMOVED FROM THENCE UNTO A MOUNTAIN ON THE EAST OF BETHEL, AND PITCHED HIS TENT, HAVING BETHEL ON THE WEST, AND HAI ON THE EAST: AND THERE HE BUILDED AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD, AND CALLED UPON THE NAME OF_ _ THE LORD._ And he removed from thence unto a mountain - Hebrew, the mountain. PITCHE... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABRAM JOURNEYED, GOING ON STILL TOWARD THE SOUTH._ Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south - х_ NEGEB_ (H5045), the south, was the name given to that large undulating tract of country which separated Central Canaan from Egypt]. Abram doubtless went along the ordinary caravan road whic... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THERE WAS A FAMINE IN THE LAND: AND ABRAM WENT DOWN INTO EGYPT TO SOJOURN THERE; FOR THE FAMINE WAS GRIEVOUS IN THE LAND._ And there was a famine in the land. This calamity was in all probability produced by a season of severe drought; and Egypt enjoyed on that occasion, as on others, an exemp... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN HE WAS COME NEAR TO ENTER INTO EGYPT, THAT HE SAID UNTO SARAI HIS WIFE, BEHOLD NOW, I KNOW THAT THOU ART A FAIR WOMAN TO LOOK UPON:_ When he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife. On reaching the confines of Egypt, which was the greatest prim... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT, WHEN ABRAM WAS COME INTO EGYPT, THE EGYPTIANS BEHELD THE WOMAN THAT SHE WAS VERY FAIR._ Was come into Eyypt It appears from the monuments of that country that at the time of Abram's visit a WAS COME INTO EYYPT. It appears from the monuments of that country that at the ti... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE PRINCES ALSO OF PHARAOH SAW HER, AND COMMENDED HER BEFORE PHARAOH: AND THE WOMAN WAS TAKEN INTO PHARAOH'S HOUSE._ The Egyptians beheld the woman, that she was very fair ... and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. The fears of Abram were well founded. What he apprehended did take place; b... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE ENTREATED ABRAM WELL FOR HER SAKE: AND HE HAD SHEEP, AND OXEN, AND HE ASSES, AND MENSERVANTS, AND MAIDSERVANTS, AND SHE ASSES, AND CAMELS._ He entreated Abram well for her sake. Marriage negotiations in the East are a sort of purchase-certain amount of presents being always assigned to the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD PLAGUED PHARAOH AND HIS HOUSE WITH GREAT PLAGUES BECAUSE OF SARAI ABRAM'S WIFE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND PHARAOH CALLED ABRAM, AND SAID, WHAT IS THIS THAT THOU HAST DONE UNTO ME? WHY DIDST THOU NOT TELL ME THAT SHE WAS THY WIFE?_ What is this that thou hast done unto me? - (cf. Genesis 20:5.) The divine judgment which was inflicted on his house had probably led him to make inquiry; and having lea... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHY SAIDST THOU, SHE IS MY SISTER? SO I MIGHT HAVE TAKEN HER TO ME TO WIFE: NOW THEREFORE BEHOLD THY WIFE, TAKE HER, AND GO THY WAY._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND PHARAOH COMMANDED HIS MEN CONCERNING HIM: AND THEY SENT HIM AWAY, AND HIS WIFE, AND ALL THAT HE HAD._ Commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away. The king was probably convinced that, whatever privilege custom might have given him among his own subjects, he had stretched his prer... [ Continue Reading ]