Removing from place to place, still hoping to meet with better neighbours, and to free himself from that perpetual vexation which he had in beholding their wickedness. Toward the south, i.e. the southern part of the land of Canaan towards Egypt. read more
CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 12:4. And Lot went with him] Kurtz understands that “God had not intended that Lot should join Abram on his journey. This (he says) is sufficiently manifest from his later history. But God allowed it, probably, from condescension to Abraham’s attachment to his family.” It would be more strictly proper to say that, as the narrative presents it, Lot joined the company of his own prompting, and not by Divine command, as in the case of Abram. It was, therefore, upon his own... read more
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
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
appeared The theophanies. Genesis 17:1; Genesis 12:7; Revelation 1:10. read more
Beth-el One of the sacred places of Canaan, meaning, house of God Genesis 28:1-22; Genesis 28:1-22 (See Scofield " :-") . It is characteristic of all apostasy that Jeroboam chose this sacred place in which to erect an idol 1 Kings 12:28; 1 Kings 12:32. (Cf) 1 Kings 13:1-5 and of divine judgment upon apostasy that God should decree the destruction of Bethel, despite its sacred memories ; 1 Kings 13:1-5; 2 Kings 23:15-17; Amos 3:14; Amos 3:15. God never hesitates to cast aside that which no... read more
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
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
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
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 12:8
Beth-el, a known place, which afterwards was called Beth-el, but now Luz, Genesis 28:19; a usual prolepsis, or anticipation, as before, Genesis 12:6. On the west; or, on the sea; which is all one, because the sea was on the west part of the land: see Genesis 13:14; Genesis 28:14; Numbers 3:23; Deuteronomy 3:27. Hai, or Ai, as it is called, Joshua 7:2; Jeremiah 49:3; Isaiah 10:28. read more