Genesis 12:6-10

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:9

‘And Abram journeyed going on still towards the Negev.’ The Negev was the Southern highland, sloping southward between Hebron and Beer-sheba, the southernmost part of Canaan, and very suitable for grazing. Abram has now passed through the whole land, surveying it in Yahweh’s name, and seeking pasture. It is his new home. Archaeology testifies to the occupancy of this area by peoples similar to Abram around this time. The route taken by Abram also fits in with what we know of such people from... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:10

Adventure in Egypt, Increasing Wealth, Separation from Lot, God Confirms His Covenant (Genesis 12:10 to Genesis 13:18 ). This section is to be seen as a whole leading up to the final covenant (Genesis 13:14-17). It reveals God’s watch over Abram in all circumstances, and stresses that Yahweh’s power reaches even into Egypt. Pharaoh was believed to be the earthly manifestation of a god, but he is shown as having no protection against Yahweh. The account helps to explain how Abram and Lot... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:1-9

Genesis 12:1-1 Samuel : . The Call of Abraham, his Migration to Canaan, and Yahweh’ s Promise to Him.— From J, except Genesis 12:4 b, Genesis 12:5, which is clearly from P. Abraham is called to leave country, kindred, and home for an unnamed land. His faith is thus challenged at the outset ( Hebrews 11:8); at the call of God, without question or demur, he abandons the tangible certainties of the present for a vague destination, and the hazards of travel and settlement in a new land. But he... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:1-20

Genesis 12:1 to Genesis 25:18 . The Story of Abraham.— In this section the three main sources, J. E, P are present. Gunkel has given strong reasons for holding that J is here made up of two main sources, one connecting Abraham with Hebron, the other with Beersheba and the Negeb. The former associates Abraham with Lot. (For details, see ICC.) On the interpretation to be placed on the figures of Abraham and the patriarchs, see the Introduction. The interest, which has hitherto been diffused... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:10-20

Genesis 12:10-Proverbs : . Abraham, Sarah, and Pharaoh.— This section creates difficulties by its similarity to Genesis 12:20; Genesis 26:6-1 Kings :. The three are usually regarded as variants of the same story. In each case the patriarch makes his wife out to be his sister. That twice over a similar incident should have occurred with Sarah is improbable; the improbability would be heightened if we denied the documentary analysis, since in the former case she would be approaching seventy and... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 12:6

Sichem; Heb. Sechem, a place afterwards so called in the mountains of Ephraim, Joshua 21:21; Judges 8:31, and here so called by anticipation. The Canaanite is properly so called; that cursed, cruel, impious, and idolatrous nation: see Zechariah 14:21. This is added as an aggravation of Abram’s faith and obedience, that he durst and did profess the true religion in the midst of such a people, which could not be without great danger both of his estate and life. Was then in the land, as a settled... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 12:7

The Lord appeared unto Abram, to encourage and comfort him against his wicked neighbours: see Genesis 13:15; Genesis 15:18; Genesis 17:8; Genesis 24:7; Deuteronomy 34:4. There built he an altar, a place for sacrifice, and other parts of Divine worship, erected by him both to keep his family in the true religion, and to separate himself and them from that idolatrous neighbourhood. read more

Matthew Poole

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

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 12:9

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

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 12:10

There was a famine in the land, or, in that land of Canaan, a land eminently fruitful, Deuteronomy 8:7-8. This was partly to punish that people's sins, Psalms 107:34, partly to try Abram's faith. read more

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