And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
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Gill's Exposition
And Abram passed through the land,.... Entering the northern part of it, as appears by his going southward, Gen 12:9 he went on
unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh; the place…
- The Call of Abram 6. שׁכם shekem Shekem, “the upper part of the back.” Here it is the name of a person, the owner of this place, where afterward is built the town called at first Shekem, then Flavia…
Adam Clarke
The plain of Moreh - אלון elon should be translated oak, not plain; the Septuagint translate την δρυν την ὑψηλην, the lofty oak; and it is likely the place was remarkable for a grove of those trees,…
One would have expected that Abram having had such an extraordinary call to Canaan some great event should have followed upon his arrival there, that he would have been introduced with all possible…
Cambridge Bible
the place of Shechem The word "place" is here probably used in the special sense of "sacred place" or "shrine," as also possibly in Gen 22:4; Gen 28:11; Gen 28:16; Jos 5:15; Jer 7:12. It does not mean…
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