Verse 7
7. The Lord appeared unto Abram This is the first time that Jehovah is said to have appeared to man; and here, at Shechem, Christ revealed himself as the Messiah to a woman of Samaria . How Jehovah appeared at this time to Abram no man is now competent to say, and speculation and theories seem idle . Here was the first altar built to Jehovah as the covenant God; but we may be sure that “Melchizedek, king of Salem, and priest of the Most High God,” was also at this time offering acceptable worship in this land of idolatry . Now for the first time Abram is told what is the land promised him, and yet it is not to be an inheritance for him, but only for his children .
Unto thy seed will I give this land There was now no established priesthood; the head of the family was priest in his own household . Abram builds an altar of earth and rough stones, and in the midst of his assembled household calls upon God by the mysterious covenant Name . He thus enters the land of promise with the solemn worship of Jehovah .
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