Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
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Gill's Exposition
Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans,.... The same with Mesopotamia; so Pliny says (b), that
"because of Babylon the head of the Chaldean nation---the other part of Mesopotamia and Assyria…
Barnes' Notes
Land of the Chaldeans - From Ur of the Chaldees, Gen 11:31. When his father was dead - This passage has given rise to no small difficulty in the interpretation. The difficulty is this: From Gen 11:26,…
Adam Clarke
When his father was dead - See the note on Gen 11:26.
Stephen is now at the bar before the great council of the nation, indicted for blasphemy: what the witnesses swore against him we had an account of in the foregoing chapter, that he spoke blasphemous…
Cambridge Bible
Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran The Chaldæans were the people of that country which had Babylon for its capital. The extent of the country signified by "the land of…
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