Genesis 11:30

_BUT SARAI WAS BARREN; SHE HAD NO CHILD._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

30._But Sarai was barren_. Not only does he say that Abram was without children, but he states the reasons namely, the sterility of his wife; in order to show that it was by nothing short of an extraordinary miracle that she afterwards bare Isaac, as we shall declare more fully in its proper place. Thus was God pleased to humble his servant; and we cannot doubt that Abram would suffer severe pain through this privation. He sees the wicked springing up everywhere, in great numbers, to cover the earth; he alone is deprived of children. And although hitherto he was ignorant of his own future vocation; yet God designed in his person, as in a mirror, to make it evident, whence and in what manner his Church should arise; for at that time it lay hid, as in a dry root under the earth....

27-32 Here begins the story of Abram, whose name is famous in both Testaments. Even the children of Eber had become worshippers of false gods. Those who are through grace, heirs of the land of promise, ought to remember what was the land of their birth; what was their corrupt and sinful state by nature. Abram's brethren were, Nahor, out of whose family both Isaac and Jacob had their wives; and Haran, the father of Lot, who died before his father. Children cannot be sure that they shall outlive their parents. Haran died in Ur, before the happy removal of the family out of that idolatrous country. It concerns us to hasten out of our natural state, lest death surprise us in it. We here read of Abram's departure out of Ur of the Chaldees, with his father Terah, his nephew Lot, and the rest of his family, in obedience to the call of God. This chapter leaves them about mid-way between Ur and...

- Section X - Abraham - XXXVI. The Father of Abram 27. לוט _lôṭ_, Lot, “veil;” verb: “cover.” 28. אוּר _'ûr_, Ur, “light, flame.” כשׂדים _kaśdı̂ym_, Kasdim, Cardi, Kurds, Χαλδαῖοι _Kaldaioi_. כסד _kesed_, “gain?” Arabic. Ur Kasdim has been identified with Hur, now called Mugheir (the bitumened), a heap of ruins lying south of the Euphrates, nearly opposite its jucnction with the Shat el-Hie. Others place it at Edessa, now Orfa, a short way north of Carrhae. 29. שׂרי _sāray_, Sarai, “strife;” שׂרה _śārâh_ “strive

PART III THE PATRIARCHAL AGE OF THE WORLD. CH. 11:27-50:26. 7. THE GENERATIONS OF TERAH (CH. 11:27-25:11). 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 foregoing genealogy ('Speaker's Commentary') nor the heading only of the brief paragraph in Genesis 11:27-1 (Lange; vide Genesis 2:4)—OF TERAH. Not of Abram; partly because mainly occupied with the caree

BUT SARAI WAS BARREN; SHE HAD NO CHILD. Aben Ezra observes, there are some that say that Abraham was impotent, and not Sarai barren; the very reverse of the Scriptures; but as he rightly adds, his son Ishmael and his sons by Keturah show the contrary, see Genesis 15:2....

CHAPTER 11:1-9 THE TOWER OF BABEL AND THE SCATTERING OF THE NATIONS _ 1. The unity of the nations in Shinar (Genesis 11:1)_ 2. Their attempt: “Let us make” (Genesis 11:3) 3. The divine answer: “Let us go down” (Genesis 11:5) 4. The Result (Genesis 11:8) All the earth had one language. This is also proven by philological research. The whole human family journeyed together. They left the mountainous regions and went down to the plain. This expresses their descent morally; they turned away from God, though they had the knowledge of God ...

THE SONS OF TERAH. Derived from P and J. Genesis 11:27 and Genesis 11:31 f. are clearly from P, Genesis 11:28 probably from J (there are phraseological grounds), and Genesis 22:20 (J) refers to Genesis 11:29. GENESIS 11:28. UR OF THE CHALDEES: Heb. _ UR_ Kasdim, is generally identified with Uru, one of the most ancient cities of Babylonia, where the moon-god was worshipped, now Mugheir. The Chaldees (Ass. _Kaldu)_ lived on the SE.

The Sons of Terah. (J and P.) 27. _Now these are_, &c. The story of Abram commences here with the heading of a section from P. Cf. Genesis 25:19, "And these are the generations of Isaac." _Haran begat Lot_ Lot the nephew of Abram, and the traditional ancestor of the peoples east of the Dead Sea. It is natural to suppose that the name has some affinity with that of "Lotan," a Horite family or tribe (Genesis 36:20; Genesis 36:29)....

PART TWENTY-FIVE: THE GENERATIONS OF TERAH (Genesis 11:27-32) _The Central Theme (Motif) of the Bible_ The Bible is not, was never intended to be, a book of science, or a book of philosophy (which is exclusively human speculation), or even a history of the human race. It is, rather, the history of a single genealogical Line, the Line that flowered and terminated in the story of Messiah, the Redeemer. It is, therefore, preeminently the Book of Redemption: its content is the story of the progressive unfolding (actualization) of the divine Plan of Redemption. It is in fact the record of the actualization of God's Cosmic Plan in its fulness, in which Redemption is revealed as the final phase of the Creation. As it is made clear in Biblical teaching throughout, our God, the living and true God, declares the end from the beginning ...