Genesis 12:6

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

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 12:6

Genesis 12:6 This 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 makes up the interval is the grace of God. II. There were difficulties by the way: why are we not... 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 12:6

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

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 12:6-7

Gen 12:6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite [was] then in the land. Ver. 6,7. And the Canaanite was then in the land. And the Lord appeared to Abram. ] The sight of those wicked Canaanites might discourage him, and unsettle his faith. But then the sight of God relieved him (he is the first man that God is said to appear to); and the promise, "Unto thy seed will I give this land," could not but put spirits into him, and make... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 12:6

passed: Hebrews 11:9 Sichem: Genesis 33:18, Genesis 34:2, Genesis 35:4, Joshua 20:7, Joshua 24:32, Judges 9:1, 1 Kings 12:1, Shechem, John 4:5, Sychar, Acts 7:16, Sychem plain: The word rendered "plain" should be rendered "oak," or according to Celsius, the "turpentine-tree." Moreh: Deuteronomy 11:30, Judges 7:1 Canaanite: Genesis 10:15, Genesis 10:18, Genesis 10:19, Genesis 13:7, Genesis 15:18-Ecclesiastes : Reciprocal: Genesis 13:3 - from Numbers 34:2 - is the land Joshua 5:1 -... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Genesis 12:6

And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.The Canaanite was then in the land — He found the country possessed by Canaanites, who were likely to be but bad neighbours; and for ought appears he could not have ground to pitch his tent on but by their permission. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:6

6. Passed through the land Descending, probably, by way of Damascus as we find afterwards that the steward of his house is a native of that city thence southward and along the valley of the Jabbok by the route afterwards followed by Jacob, and across the Jordan unto the place of Sichem, or Shechem, the region in which afterwards, and in the writer’s time, the town of Shechem was situated. (Neapolis and Nablus in subsequent time.) Yet the name, meaning shoulder, was probably given the... read more

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