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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Genesis 11:28

And Haran died before, that is, during the lifetime of, his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. This, then, was the ancestral home of this family of the descendants of Shem.

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See also Genesis 11:28 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - 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_....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BEFORE HIS FATHER. The first death so recorded. Ur. the _Uru_ or "city" of the cuneiform texts. Now. Mugheir on W. bank of Euphrates....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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 bega...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This and the following verse are taken from J, and commence the personal history of the patriarch. _Haran died_ This may indicate a tradition that the hill people, or families who joined the main bod...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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 i...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND HARAN DIED BEFORE HIS FATHER TERAH IN THE LAND OF HIS NATIVITY, IN UR OF THE CHALDEES._ Haran died ... in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. Josephus speaks of the sepulchre being...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    11:28 Chaldeans. (c-21) Or 'in Chaldea.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Nahor’s brother Haran died. After that, Nahor married Haran’s daughter Milcah. So Nahor married his niece. In those times, a man would marry his niece if her father had died. TERAH AND ABRAM LEAVE UR...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 11 THE TALL BUILDING AT BABEL V1 All the people who were on the earth had one language. They all had one set of words. V2 And men travelled from...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HARAN DIED BEFORE HIS FATHER. — Heb., _in the presence of his father._ This is the first recorded instance of a premature death caused by natural decay. IN UR OF THE CHALDEES. — _Ur_-_Casdim._ A flood...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּ֣מָת הָרָ֔ן עַל ־פְּנֵ֖י תֶּ֣רַח אָבִ֑י

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE CALL OF ABRAHAM Genesis 11:27; Genesis 12:1 WITH Abraham there opens a new chapter in the history of the race; a chapter of the profoundest significance. The consequences of Abraham's movements a...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE GENERATIONS UNTIL ABRAM Genesis 11:10 The inwardness of the movement of Terah's clan from Ur is given in Acts 7:3. Apparently his father was unwilling for Abram to go alone on his far-pilgrimage,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In this chapter we have the account of a human movement against dispersion. The movement was one of rebellion and was frustrated by divine interposition. The divine intention was the covering of the w...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    A FAMILY FOR GOD'S PURPOSE For the Savior to come to earth as the seed of woman and shed his blood, he had to be born. Such a birth would require a family, or lineage. Naturally, we would expect God...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    28._And Haran died_. Haran is said to have died before the face of his father; because he left his father the survivor. It is also said that he died in his country, that is, in Ur. The Jews turn the p...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 AND 11. Chapter s 10, 11 give us the history of the world as peopled and established after the deluge, and the ways of men in this new world; the great pla...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND HARAN DIED BEFORE HIS FATHER TERAH,.... In his father's presence, before his face, in his life time, as Jarchi; he seeing him, as Aben Ezra: it does not so much respect the time of his death, that...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. Ver. 28. _And Haran died before his father Terah._] The Hebrews say he died a martyr, being burnt with fire...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 One language in the world. 3 The building of Babel. 5 The confusion of tongues. 10 The generations of Shem. 27 The generations of Terah the father of Abram. 31 Terah goeth from Vr to Haran. 1...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    FIFTH SECTION _The race of Shem. The Commenced and Interrupted Migration of Terah to Canaan. The Genesis of the Contrast between Heathendom and the germinal Patriarchalism_ GENESIS 11:10-32 1. Gene...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    BABEL: THE CITY AND THE TOWER Up to this time there was only one language. In the world today men wish they could have this advantage, but God is wiser than men. Men desire this for the very same rea...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 promis...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    i.e. In the presence and during the life of his father....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    This is a chapter of very deep interest to the spiritual mind. It records two great facts, namely, the building of Babel, and the call of Abraham; or, in other words, man's effort to provide for himse...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 11:28 Haran H2039 died H4191 (H8799) before H6440 father H1 Terah H8646 native H4138 land H776 Ur...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CALL OF ABRAM (GENESIS 11:27 TO GENESIS 12:9) Genesis 11:27 ‘Terah begat Abram, Nahor and Haran, and Haran begat Lot. And Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his nativit...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Failure under Noamic covenant. Tower of Babel. Scattering of the people. Ancestry of Abram. CHARACTERS: Shem, Terah, Abram, Lot, Sarai. CONCLUSION: Man ever builds under the heavens, seeki...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 11:1. _One language_ or lip. These words are to be literally understood, because it is added, God confounded their language. There has been a long and unavailing dispute whether the Chaldaic,...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran_ THE DAWN OF ABRAM’S HISTORY Here we have the commencement of the sixth document, indicated by the usual preface, “These...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 11:28 UR OF THE CHALDEANS was a city in southern Babylonia, the remains of which are located in modern Iraq. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 11:28. Ur of the Chaldees] “_Ur_ in Heb. means _light,_ and was probably so called from the Persian idolatry of _fire worship,_ prevalent among this people. Abram was called...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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 th...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter eleven. The whole earth was of one language, and one speech (Genesis 11:1). Probably Hebrew because in the earlier record of the book of Genesis, the names of the people were Hebrew n...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ur. Genesis 15:7 Nehemiah 9:7 Acts 7:2...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    How could Abraham’s family be from Ur of the Chaldees when elsewhere it says his ancestors came from Haran? PROBLEM: There is an apparent conflict as to where Abraham is really from. Genesis 11:28 say...

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