Abraham was called both a Hebrew (14:13) and an Aramean (Deuteronomy 26:5; cf. 25:20; 28:5; 31:20, 24). He was born in Ur and moved to Haran with his father Terah. At God's call, he traveled to Canaan and lived for a while in various localities, in particular: Shechem,...
Abraham and Abimelech - Abraham moved from Mamre to the southern part of Canaan and lived between Kadesh and Shur. Later, while he was living in
becomes the wife of (the now Persian) emperor Xerxes who reigned a region that stretched from India to Ethiopia, averts the holocaust intended by Haman and causes the people of Judah to be given their pride back. Soon after, a man named Zerubbabel leads a group of Jews back to Canaan. ...
1 Abraham left Hebron and traveled to southern Canaan where he stayed awhile between Kadesh and Shur. When he moved to Gerar, 创世记 20:1 — American Standard Version (ASV) 1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he soj...
He returned to Canaan richer than when he left it, "in cattle, in silver, and in gold" ( Genesis 12:8 ; 13:2 . Compare Psalms 105:13 Psalms 105:14 ). The whole party then moved northward, and returned to their previous station near Bethel. Here disputes arose between Lot's ...
Genesis 24:6 tn The introductory clause “And Abraham said to him” has been moved to the end of the opening sentence of direct discourse in the translation for stylistic reasons. Genesis 24:7 tn Or “the land of my birth.” Genesis 24:7 tn Heb“and who spoke to me and who swore ...
Egypt was just about to enter its great dynastic period, and was beginning to consolidate into a united kingdom, when from northern Egypt a surge of Egyptian stock, including the Philistines, moved north into southern Palestine to settle, as well as to trade, identified in a number of sites...
Didn't you give this country to the descendants of your friend Abraham to have permanently?Good News TranslationYou are our God. When your people Israel moved into this land, you drove out the people who were living here and gave the land to the descendants of Abraham, your friend, to ...
Abraham Moves to Hebron (13:18) God's promise may have initiated a period of "walking" the land followed by settling at Hebron, near the great trees of Mamre. "So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord...
17So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar,where he settled.18Isaac reopened the wellsthat had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them. ...