Genesis 11

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:12-13

And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years , and begat Salah . Shalach , literally, emission, or the sending forth, of water, a memorial of the Flood (Bochart); or of an arrow or dart ( vide Genesis 10:24 ). A nd Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years , and begat sons and daughters . read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:14-15

And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber . Literally, the region on the otherside ( πε ì ραν ); from עָבַר , to pass over (cf. υ ̔ πε ì ρ , Greek; uber , German; over , Saxon). The ancestor of the Hebrews ( Genesis 10:21 ), so called from his descendants having crossed the Euphrates and commenced a southward emigration, or from the circumstance that he or another portion of his posterity remained on the other side. Prof. Lewis thinks that this branch of the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:16-17

And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg. Division ; from palag , to divide. For the reason of this cognomen vide Genesis 10:25 . And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years , and begat sons and daughters. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:18-19

And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu . Friend (cf. of God, or of men), or friendship ; from a root signifying to pasture, to tend, to care for. Bochart traces his descendants in the great Nisaean plain Ragan (Judith 1:6), situated on the confines of Armenia and Media, and having, according to Strabo, a city named Ragae or Ragiae. And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years , and begat sons and daughters. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:20-21

And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug. Vine-shoot, from sarag, to wind (Gesenius, Lange, Lewis, Murphy); strength, firmness, from the sense of twisting which the root bears (Furst). And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years , and begat sons and daughters. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:22-23

And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor . Panting . (Gesenius); from nachar, to breathe hard, to snort. Piercer, slayer (Furst); from an unused root signifying to Bore through. And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years , and begat sons and daughters. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:24-25

And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah . Terach, or turning, tarrying; from tarach, an unused Chaldaean root meaning to delay (Gesenius); singularly appropriate to his future character and history, from which probably the name reverted to him. Ewald renders Terach by "migration, considering Tarach = arach, to stretch out. A nd Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years , and begat sons and daughters. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:26

And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram . First named on account of his spiritual pre-eminence. If Abram was Terah's eldest son, then, as Abram was seventy-five years of age when Terah died ( Genesis 12:4 ), Terah's whole life could only have been 145 years. But Terah lived to the age of 205 years ( Genesis 11:32 ); therefore Abram was born in Terah's 130th year. This, however, makes it surprising that Abraham should have reckoned it impossible for him to have a son at 100 years (... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:27

PART III THE PATRIARCHAL AGE OF THE WORLD. CH. 11:27-50:26. 7. THE GENERATIONS OF TERAH (CH. 11:27-25:11). 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 11:27-32 (Lange; vide Genesis 2:4 )— of... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:28

And Haran died before his father . Literally, upon the face of his father ; ἐνώπιον τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ ( LXX ); while his father was alive (Munster, Luther, Calvin, Rosenmüller); perhaps also in his father's presence (Keil, Lange), though the Jewish fable may be discarded that Terah, at this time an 'idolater, accused his sons to Nimrod, who cast them into a furnace for refusing to worship the fire-god, and that ,Haran perished in the flames in his father's sight. The decease of... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:12-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:14-15

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:16-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:18-19

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:20-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:22-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:24-25

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:26

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:27

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:28

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