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26And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Genesis 11:26

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.

  • Serug, Nahor, Terah, …

  • And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we. …

  • And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor; …

  • So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-26)

We have here a genealogy, not an endless genealogy, for here it ends in Abram, the friend of God, and leads further to Christ, the promised seed, who was the son of Abram, and from Abram the genealogy of Christ is reckoned (Matt. 1:1-17); so that put Gen. 5:1-32 ; 11:10-26 ; Matt. 1:1-17 , together, and you have such an entire genealogy of Jesus Christ as cannot be produced, for aught I know, conc…

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