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- 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_....
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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 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...
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DIED IN HARAN (Charran). With this Acts 7:4 agrees. Not seeing this,
the Massorites wrongly marked Genesis 11:32 with an inverted _Nun_ ()
as being. dislocation of the Text....
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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...
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The Migration of Terah to Haran, and his Death. (P.)
31. _they went forth with them_ The words, as they stand, are
meaningless. The Syriac reads "and he went forth with them." Better as
LXX, Sam. and...
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_two hundred and five years_ For this figure the Samaritan version
gives 145, obviously in order to make the year of Abram's departure
from Haran (when Abram was 75 years old; see Genesis 12:4) coinci...
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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...
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_AND THE DAYS OF TERAH WERE TWO HUNDRED AND FIVE YEARS: AND TERAH DIED
IN HARAN._
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years. This has long
been regarded as a difficulty, for the solution...
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THE DAYS OF TERAH WERE TWO HUNDRED AND FIVE YEARS] According to the
Samaritan text Terah was 145 years old when he died. As Terah was 70
at the birth of Abram (Genesis 11:26) and the latter left Haran...
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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 DAYS OF TERAH. — See note on Genesis 11:26. According to the
Samaritan text, Abram left Haran in the same year as that in which
Terah died. Nahor had probably joined Terah about this time, as we
f...
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וַ יִּהְי֣וּ יְמֵי ־תֶ֔רַח חָמֵ֥שׁ
שָׁנִ֖ים ו
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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...
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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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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...
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And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died
in Haran.
Observe, how the lives of men have gradually been shortened!
REFLECTIONS.
WHAT an awful view is here again afforded of...
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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 THE DAYS OF TERAH WERE TWO HUNDRED YEARS,.... His days are summed
up as none of the rest are in this genealogy, that it might be
observed; his death being the time of Abram's leaving Chaldea and
c...
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_And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died
in Haran._
Ver. 32. _Terah died in Haran._] And so fell short of the earthly, but
not of the heavenly Canaan; to the which, ther...
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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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And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died
in Haran. This notice rounds out the story of Terah, for he evidently
died after Abram had gone forth to Canaan. Thus the less imp...
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The Generations of Terah...
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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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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...
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No text from Poole on this verse. _1921_...
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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 11:32 days H3117 Terah H8646 hundred H3967 H8141 five H2568
years H8141 Terah H8646 died H4191 ...
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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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_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...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 11:31 HARAN was an important crossroads and
commercial center in the ancient Near East.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Was Abraham 75 years old when he left Haran, or was he 135 years old?
PROBLEM: Genesis 11:26 states, “Now Terah lived seventy years, and
begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.” In Acts 7:4 Stephen states that...