Genesis 12:1-7

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 12:1-20

Genesis 12:1. Had said. The God of glory appeared to Abraham, and enjoined him to leave his idolatrous country. Joshua 24:2. Acts 7:3. Genesis 12:2. I will make of thee a great nation, yea many nations. All these are princely benedictions, conferring sovereignty, and adding a curse on the head of him who dare to rebel. Genesis 27:29. Genesis 12:6. The Canaanite was then in the land. Abraham did not wander like other patriarchs to a vacant country, but to a land already occupied by... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 12:1-3

Genesis 12:1-3Now the Lord had said unto Abram, get thee out of thy countryAbraham’s actionHis obeying the call and command of God, wherein four circumstances are very remarkable.1. The time when it was when God called. 2. The place from whence God called him. 3. The country whither he was called. 4. The reason or end why he was thus said unto by the great God. I. First of the first, to wit, THE TIME WHEN ABRAHAM WAS CALLED. It was while he lived in Ur of the Chaldees; for Abraham lived with... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 12:4

Genesis 12:4So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto himAbraham’s obedienceI.AT FIRST, ABRAHAM’S OBEDIENCE WAS ONLY PARTIAL (Genesis 11:31). It becomes us to be very careful as to whom we take with us in our pilgrimage. We may make a fair start from our Ur; but if we take Terah with us, we shall not go far. Let us all beware of that fatal spirit of compromise, which tempts us to tarry where beloved ones bid us to stay. II. ABRAHAM’S OBEDIENCE WAS RENDERED POSSIBLE BY HIS FAITH Genesis... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 12:5

Genesis 12:5They went forth to go into the land of Canaan, and into the land of Canaan they cameRight beginningsThis is one of the most comforting verses in the Bible.It is so simple and yet so sure. It tells us that the end is certain if the beginning is right. I. The text is WRITTEN FROM HEAVEN’S SIDE OF THE QUESTION. It is the history--put in short--of all the saints who ever went to glory. They took a long journey, and at last they got safely home. The rest--how it was, why it was, all that... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 12:6

Genesis 12:6The Canaanite was then in the landThe Canaanite in the landI.THE CANAANITE IS IN THE LAND. 1. The present world, through which we are travelling, is in the hands of the enemies of God. 2. Yet this very earth is to be, one day, the possession of the saints. 3. Meanwhile, our position in it, as pilgrims, is one of privation and peril. (1) We have spiritual foes, unseen, but ever watching against our souls. (2) We find the Canaanite in ourselves, in our fleshly infirmities, natural... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 12:7

Genesis 12:7And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this landThe land of promise1.The first feature which eminently marked out the land for the residence of God’s chosen nation is this: it unites, as no other does, the two indispensable conditions of central position and yet of isolation. To lie in the midst of the nations, at the focus and gathering place of those mighty and cultured empires, whose rivalries ruled the politics, as their example led the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 12:1

Gen 12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: Ver. 1. Now the Lord had said to Abram. ] But was not this to command him to do that which was against nature? No, but only against corrupt nature, which must be denied, and mortified, or there is no heaven to be had. Father and friends must be hated (that is, not loved, as "Esau have I hated"), where they hang in our light, or stand in... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 12:2

Gen 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: Ver. 2. And I will make of thee a great nation. ] Why then should the scornful Jews call us nations or Gentiles in contempt? yea, heathen bastards, heathen dogs, as they do at this day? a Surely, either themselves are of this great Goi or nation here mentioned, or else they have not Abraham to their father; choose them which. I will bless thee. ] As a father his... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 12:3

Gen 12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. Ver. 3. And I will bless them that bless thee. ] Some there are that will curse those whom God blessed; but nothing so many as they that will rise up and call them blessed. These are expressed here in the plural number; those in the singular only. "For who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?" 1Pe 3:13 But say there be some... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 12:4

Gen 12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram [was] seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. Ver. 4. So Abram departed. ] He had now enough, having such precious promises, though he previously had nothing else. He parted with his friends and kindred, but is now become the friend of God, and akin to Christ. Let their money perish with them, who esteem all the gold in the world worth one day’s society with Jesus Christ, and his... read more

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 12:1-20

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 12:1-3

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 12:4

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 12:5

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 12:6

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 12:7

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 12:1

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 12:2

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 12:3

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 12:4

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