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Verse Genesis 11:26. _AND TERAH LIVED SEVENTY YEARS, AND BEGAT ABRAM,
NAHOR,_ _AND HARAN._] Haran was certainly the eldest son of Terah, and
he appears to have been born when Terah was about seventy...
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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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_seventy years_ The birth of Terah's firstborn is postponed for a
period twice as long as in the case of the other patriarchs since
Shem. Shem was 100 years old when he begat Arpachshad (Genesis 11:10...
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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 TERAH LIVED SEVENTY YEARS, AND BEGAT ABRAM, NAHOR, AND HARAN._
Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. It
appears that Terah did not acquire the paternal character until he...
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11:26 Abram, (a-8) High father....
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For the meaning of ABRAM and SARAI (Genesis 11:29) see on Genesis 17....
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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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וַֽ יְחִי ־תֶ֖רַח שִׁבְעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה
וַ יֹּ֨ו
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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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And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
These verses are all highly interesting, in that they lead to Him,
after the flesh, in whom all the families of the earth were to be
b...
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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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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 Terah lived seventy years and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. That
is, the oldest son of Terah was born when he was seventy years old,
and three sons are mentioned in this instance, Abram, afterwar...
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The Generation of Shem...
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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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_ 2056_ i.e. Began to beget, as GENESIS 5:32. ABRAM, who is first
named in order of dignity, (for which cause Shem is put before Ham and
Japheth, and Moses before Aaron), not in order of time, which s...
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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 11:26 Terah H8646 lived H2421 (H8799) seventy H7657 years
H8141 begot H3205 (H8686) Abram H87 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...
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A.M. 1948. B.C. 2056. Abram. Genesis 12:4 Genesis 12:5 Genesis 22:20
Genesis 29:4...