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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:4

And Abram was seventy and five years old - As Abram was now seventy-five years old, and his father Terah had just died, at the age of two hundred and five, consequently Terah must have been one hundred and thirty when Abram was born; and the seventieth year of his age mentioned Genesis 11:26 , was the period at which Haran, not Abram, was born. See on Genesis 11 (note). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:5

The souls that they had gotten in Haran - This may apply either to the persons who were employed in the service of Abram, or to the persons he had been the instrument of converting to the knowledge of the true God; and in this latter sense the Chaldee paraphrasts understood the passage, translating it, The souls of those whom they proselyted in Haran. They went forth to go into the land of Canaan - A good land, possessed by a bad people, who for their iniquities were to be expelled, see ... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:1

Verse 1 1.Now the Lord had said unto Abram. That an absurd division of these chapters may not trouble the readers, let them connect this sentence with the last two verses of the previous chapter. Moses had before said, that Terah and Abram had departed from their country to dwell in the land of Canaan. He now explains that they had not been impelled by levity as rash and fickle men are wont to be; nor had been drawn to other regions by disgust with their own country, as morose persons... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:2

Verse 2 2.And I will make of thee a great nation. Hitherto Moses has related what Abram had been commanded to do; now he annexes the promise of God to the command; and that for no light cause. For as we are slothful to obey, the Lord would command in vain, unless we are animated by a superadded confidence in his grace and benediction. Although I have before alluded to this, in the history of Noah, it will not be useless to inculcate it again, for the passage itself requires something to be... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:3

Verse 3 3.And I will bless them that bless thee. Here the extraordinary kindness of God manifests itself, in that he familiarly makes a covenant with Abram, as men are wont to do with their companions and equals. For this is the accustomed form of covenants between kings and others, that they mutually promise to have the same enemies and the same friends. This certainly is an inestimable pledge of special love, that God should so greatly condescend for our sake. For although he here addresses... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:4

Verse 4 4.So Abram departed. They who suppose that God was now speaking to Abram in Charran, lay hold of these words in support of their error. But the cavil is easily refuted; for after Moses has mentioned the cause of their departure, namely, that Abram had been constrained by the command of God to leave his native soil, he now returns to the thread of the history. Why Abram for a time should have remained in Charran, we do not know, except that God laid his hand upon him, to prevent him from... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 12:5

Verse 5 5.The souls that they had gotten in Haran. Souls signify male and female servants. And this is the first mention of servitude; whence it appears, that not long after the deluge the wickedness of man caused liberty which by nature, was common to all, to perish with respect to a great part of mankind. Whence servitude originated is not easy to determine, unless according to the opinion which has commonly prevailed it arose from wars; because the conquerors compelled those whom they took... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 12:1

Now the Lord. Jehovah = the God of salvation, an indication that the narrative is now to specially concern itself with the chosen seed, and the Deity to discover himself as the God of redemption. The hypothesis that Genesis 12:1-4 were inserted in the fundamental document by the Jehovist editor is not required for a satisfactory explanation of the change of the Divine name at this particular stage of the narrative. Had said . Literally, said. In Ur of the Chaldees, according to Stephen... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 12:1

The voices of God at the opening of the world's eras. I. AT THE OPENING Or CREATION . "And God said, let there be Light." II. AT THE OPENING OF REDEMPTION . "And God said, I will put enmity between thee and the woman," &c.; III. AT THE OPENING OF THE OLD DISPENSATION . "And God said to Abram, Get thee out of thy country." IV. AT THE OPENING OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA . "And God said, This is my beloved SON ?" V. AT THE OPENING OF ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 12:1-5

Designed to trace the outward development of God's kingdom on the earth, the narrative now concentrates its attention on one of the foregoing Terachites, whose remarkable career it sketches with considerable minuteness of detail, from the period of his emigration from Chaldea to his death at Hebron in the land of Canaan. Distinguished as a man of undoubted superiority both of character and mind, the head of at least two powerful and important races, and standing, as one might say, on the... read more

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