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- Chapter 12
- Verse 9
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Gill's Exposition
And Abram journeyed,.... He did not stay long in the mountain between Bethel and Hai, but moved from thence, and kept on journeying in the land of Canaan:
going on still toward the south; the…
- 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…
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
toward the South Heb. Negeb, the southern tract of Judah. Negebmeans "the dry land," "the land of thin soil." It was applied especially to the country in the southernmost region of Canaan, described…
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