Genesis 12:7-20

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:1-20

THE CALL OF ABRAM The Lord had before told Abram to leave his country, his kindred and his father's house, and go to a land He would show him. This call took place while he was still in Ur of the Chaldees (Acts 7:2-4). God declared that He would make of Abram a great nation, that he would be a blessing (v.2). More than this, God would bless those who blessed Abram and curse those who cursed him. Further still, in Abram all the families of the earth would be blessed (v.3). This is above all a... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Genesis 12:1-9

ABRAM ’S CALL AND HIS RESPONSE How does the King James Version indicate an earlier date for the call of Abram than that which chapter 12 narrates? How is this corroborated by Acts 7:2 ? Stephen, speaking of this call, indicates that God “was seen to Abraham,” as if some visible manifestation was vouchsafed to him at the beginning. In what form this may have been we do not know, but sufficiently clear to have shown the patriarch the distinction between gods of wood and stone and the only... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Genesis 12:10-20

THE PROMISE RENEWED TO ABRAM ABRAM IN EGYPT (Genesis 12:10-20 ) It is felt that Abram acted unadvisedly in taking this journey to Egypt, for which three reasons are assigned: 1. God could have provided for him in Canaan, notwithstanding the famine; there was no command for him to leave Canaan, to which place God had definitely called him; and 2. he fell into difficulty by going, and was obliged to employ subterfuge to escape it. Still these arguments are not convincing, and in the... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Genesis 12:1-20

The Same-varied Gen 12:1 God's claim upon the individual life is here asserted. God detaches men from early associations, from objects of special care and love, and makes them strangers in the earth. The family idea is sacred, but the Divine will is, so to speak, more sacred still; when the God of the families of the earth calls men from their kindred and their father's house, all tributary laws must be swallowed up by the great stream of the Divine Fatherhood. These calls, so shattering in... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 12:7

And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. Nine times (if I mistake not) it is noticed of God's appearing to Abram. The Holy Ghost by the mouth of Stephen explains how: Acts 7:2 See Genesis 22:15; Genesis 22:15 . read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 12:8

And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD. Abram not only served God for himself, but erected an altar for his public worship. read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 12:10

And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land. Was not this particularly intended for the exercise of Abram's faith? Had he consulted flesh and blood would he not have said, "Is this the land of promise? Is this the end of my pursuits? And have I for this left my Father's house, and my own land, to perish here by famine?" But what saith the Apostle? Romans 4:18-21 . And particularly Romans 4:23-24 ? Reader! what... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 12:18

And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? I think it probable, that those plagues were diseases of a particular nature. 1 Samuel 5:6-9 . And it should seem that they were so considered. God's rod has a voice, and speaks as well as corrects. Micah 6:9 . Reader! it is a melancholy reflection, when the people of God give occasion for the carnal to reprove them. read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 12:19

Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. Observe how God provides for his people's safety. Psalms 105:13-15 . read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 12:20

REFLECTIONS METHINKS I would not read this call of God to Abram, and observe the Patriarch's ready faith to obey it, without begging grace from God, to attend to the many precious invitations with which I am called upon to follow Jesus in the regeneration; and, like Abram, to arise, leave house and home, and kindred, and relations; and by faith become the follower of them who now through faith and patience inherit the promises. And oh! that He, who endued the patriarch with such holy fortitude,... read more

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:1-20

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Genesis 12:1-9

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Genesis 12:10-20

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Genesis 12:1-20

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 12:7

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 12:8

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 12:10

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 12:18

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 12:19

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 12:20

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