Genesis 12:19-20

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 12:1-20

Genesis 12:0 , etc. I. Notice first the call of Abraham. (1) The call was addressed to him suddenly; (2) it required him to forsake his country and his kindred, while giving him no hope of return; (3) it sent him on a long and difficult journey, to a country lying more than three hundred miles away. Yet Abraham obeyed in willing submission to the command of God. II. Notice Abraham's conquest over the kings. This is the first battle recorded in the word of God. It was after his rescue of Lot... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 12:1-20

Chapter 12Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy family ( Genesis 12:1 ),So Abraham really wasn't totally obedient at this point. And this to me is interesting, because Abraham is always held as the model of faith in the New Testament, the model of a man who believed and trusted God. He's the prime example of the man who believes. And so many times when we read about faith and the exploits of faith, we think, "But I'm so weak and I've blown it so many times,... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

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 12:10-20

Genesis 12:10-20Abram went down into EgyptAbram in Egypt: the temptations and trials of a life of faithThe life of faith has many temptations and trials.I. THEY MAY ARISE FROM TEMPORAL CALAMITIES. Famine. 1. They direct the whole care and attention of the mind to themselves. 2. They may suggest doubt in the Divine providence. 3. They serve to give us an exaggerated estimate of past trials. II. THEY MAY ARISE FROM THE DIFFICULTY OF APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES OF RELIGION TO THE MORAL PROBLEMS OF... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 12:19

Gen 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. Ver. 19. Why saidst thou, She is my sister? ] He might have answered, Because I was afraid. His fear it was that put him upon this exploit. So it did David when he changed his behaviour, and Peter when he denied his Master, &c. Men should rather die than lie. Nec prodam, nec mentiar , said that good bishop a in St Augustine. And that was a... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 12:20

Gen 12:20 And Pharaoh commanded [his] men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had. Ver. 20. And Pharaoh commanded. ] Thus God comes, as it were, out of an engine, a and helps his people at a pinch. Abram had brought himself into the briars, and could find no way out. Many a heavy heart he had, no doubt, for his dear wife (who suffered by his default), and she again for him. God, upon their repentance, provides graciously for them both: she is kept... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 12:19

Reciprocal: Genesis 20:14 - restored Genesis 26:10 - General Proverbs 6:29 - he that Ecclesiastes 9:7 - Go Matthew 19:9 - doth read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 12:20

Exodus 18:27, 1 Samuel 29:6-1 Kings :, Psalms 105:14, Psalms 105:15, Proverbs 21:1 Reciprocal: Genesis 20:14 - restored Romans 4:2 - but read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Genesis 12:20

And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him — That is, he charged them not to injure him in any thing. And he appointed them, when Abram was disposed to return home, after the famine, to conduct him safe out of the country, as his convoy. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:20

20. Sent him away The language implies an honourable escort, and a safe conduct out of Egypt . “It deserves to be noticed that throughout the history of the chosen race, Egypt was to them the scene of spiritual danger, of covetousness and love of riches, of worldly security, of temptation to rest on man’s arm and understanding, and not on God only. All this appears from the very first, in Abram’s sojourn there, Sarai’s danger, and their departure full of wealth and prosperity.” Speaker’s... read more