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- Section IX - The Line to Abram
- XXXV. The Line of Abram
18. רעוּ _re‛û_, Re‘u, “friend;” verb: “feed, delight
in, enjoy.”
20. שׂרוּג _śerûg_, Serug, “vine-shoot.”
22. נחור _nāchôr_, Nachor...
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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...
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THE DESCENDANTS OF SHEM. This section, like Genesis 11:5, is taken
from P. Here the formula is abbreviated, but whether this was so
originally or due to an impatient editor is uncertain. There is also...
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_Nahor_ The name here of Abram's grandfather, as also, in Genesis
11:26, of Abram's brother (cf. Genesis 22:20; Joshua 24:2). Very
similar personal names are found in early Assyrian business documents...
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The Genealogy of the Patriarchs from Shem to Abram. (P.)
This genealogical table is taken from P. It resembles the table in
chap. 5 (1) in the manner of the enumeration of years, (_a_) at the
birth o...
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_AND SHEM LIVED AFTER HE BEGAT ARPHAXAD FIVE HUNDRED YEARS, AND BEGAT
SONS AND DAUGHTERS._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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...
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THE TÔLDÔTH SHEM.
(10-26) THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF SHEM. — Here also, as in
Genesis 5, there is a very considerable divergence between the
statements of the Hebrew, the Samaritan, and the Septuagi...
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וַ יְחִ֥י שְׂר֖וּג שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים
שָׁנָ֑ה וַ יֹּ
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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AND SERUG LIVED THIRTY YEARS, AND BEGAT NAHOR. The grandfather of
Abraham, one of the same name was Abraham's brother,
Genesis 11:26....
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And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
Ver. 22. _And begat Nahor._] Who, first of the patriarchs, fell to
idolatry: for Laban sware by Nahor's gods....
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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...
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The Generation of Shem...
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And Serug lived thirty years and begat Nahor;...
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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...
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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...
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10-26 Here is a genealogy, or list of names, ending in Abram, the
friend of God, and thus leading towards Christ, the promised Seed, who
was the son of Abram. Nothing is left upon record but their na...
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No text from Poole on this verse. _2155_...
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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...
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Genesis 11:22 Serug H8286 lived H2421 (H8799) thirty H7970 years H8141
begot H3205 (H8686) Nahor H5152
Nahor
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THE BIRTH OF ABRAM (GENESIS 11:10 B TO 27A).
The genealogy that follows links Abram back to Shem. This was why God
was to be blessed with regard to Shem (9:26). It would be through him
that God's man...
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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...
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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,...
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_These are the generations of Shem_
THE GENERATIONS OF SHEM
I. THE LINE IN WHICH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE GOD WAS PRESERVED.
II. THE DIRECTION OF THE STREAM OF HISTORY TOWARDS THE MESSIAH. “God
cal...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 11:10 Shem’s Descendants. Resembling the
list of Adam’s descendants in Genesis 5:3, this genealogy traces
Noah’s line through Shem down to Terah, t
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 11:10. These are the generations of Shem] The genealogies are
here only given in part, the writer’s object being to trace the
pedigree of Abram from Shem.—
_MAIN HOMILETICS...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 11:10
THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF SHEM. The new section, opening with the
usual formula (cf. Genesis 2:4; Genesis 5:1;...
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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...