Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:1-3
THE CALL OF ABRAM, Genesis 12:1-3. The history now narrows again to a single branch of the family of Terah Abram and his descendants. The other branches, which are only incidentally alluded to hereafter as they are connected with the fortunes of the covenant people, remained in Chaldea at least for generations, and a large portion of them settled around the wells of Haran, where, in the days of Isaac and Jacob, we find them forming a community which furnished these patriarchs wives of their... read more
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:1
1. The Lord had said Rather, the Lord said . The pluperfect rendering was adopted by our translators from a supposed necessity of harmonizing this verse with Acts 7:2. But it is not necessary to suppose the writer here refers to a second call, which Abram received in Haran . According to a usage often noticed in these pages, the writer goes back and takes up his narrative at a point previously recorded so we may believe, with Stephen, that this call of Abram occurred “before he dwelt... read more