Genesis 12:14-16

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 12:14

Gen 12:14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she [was] very fair. Ver. 14. The Egyptians beheld the woman. ] Pleasure is blamed, in Xenophon, for this, that she ever and anon looketh back upon her own shadow, and giveth her eyes leave to rove and range without restraint. An honest man, saith Plautus, should have continent eyes, hands, and tongue. a Nihil enim interest quibus membris cinoedi sitis posterioribus an prioribus , said... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 12:15

Gen 12:15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. Ver. 15. The princes also of Pharaoh, &c. ] Flattering courtiers please princes’ humours, and serve their delights, though to the procuring of their plagues, as here, and in young King Joash. "If a ruler hearken to lies," saith Solomon, "all his servants are wicked". Pro 29:12 Aulici sunt instar speculi , saith one. And Mirifica est sympathia , said another, ... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 12:16

Gen 12:16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. Ver. 16. And he entreated Abram well for her sake. ] To the end that he might solicit his sister to yield consent; or might not be a backward friend, at least, out of displeasure because they had taken away his sister from him to the court. So King Henry VIII advanced all Anne Boleyn’s kindred, &c. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 12:14

beheld: Genesis 3:6, Genesis 6:2, Genesis 39:7, Matthew 5:28 Reciprocal: Genesis 12:11 - a fair Genesis 39:6 - a goodly person Deuteronomy 21:11 - desire Esther 2:2 - Let there be Psalms 105:14 - General Isaiah 37:12 - Haran read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 12:15

princes: Esther 2:2-Nehemiah :, Proverbs 29:12, Hosea 7:4, Hosea 7:5, Pharaoh was a common name of the Egyptian kings, and signified a "ruler," or "king," or "father of his country." Genesis 40:2, Genesis 41:1, Exodus 2:5, Exodus 2:15, 1 Kings 3:1, 2 Kings 18:21, Jeremiah 25:19, Jeremiah 46:17, Ezekiel 32:2 taken: Genesis 20:2, Esther 2:9, Psalms 105:4, Proverbs 6:29, Hebrews 13:4 Reciprocal: Genesis 20:7 - all Genesis 39:6 - a goodly person Deuteronomy 21:11 - desire read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 12:16

And he: Genesis 13:2, Genesis 20:14 he had: Genesis 24:35, Genesis 26:14, Genesis 32:5, Genesis 32:13-Ezra :, Job 1:3, Job 42:12, Psalms 144:13, Psalms 144:14 Reciprocal: Genesis 14:14 - born Genesis 16:1 - Egyptian Ecclesiastes 5:11 - they read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:14

14. Beheld The Egyptian women were not veiled, like the Orientals . The pictorial representations in Egypt show the women unveiled, associating with men in all the freedom of modern civilization . read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:15

15. Commended her before Pharaoh The result is as Abram anticipated . He sins to help Providence, and Providence abandons him . This was also the sin of Jacob in stealing Esau’s blessing, and is no uncommon sin in God’s Church to-day . Pharaoh This is the same as the PI-Ra and PHRAH of the hieroglyphics, meaning “The Sun,” and applied as a title to the Egyptian kings . P-RE is written as a hieroglyphic symbol over the titles of the Egyptian kings . In the monuments the sun is treated as... read more

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

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 12:10-20

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 12:14

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 12:15

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 12:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 12:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 12:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 12:16

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:14

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:15

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