In Genesis 11, we read that Terah came from Ur of the Chaldeans. In addition to this, He performs miracles, consuming with fire the offering placed before Him by Gideon, and the sacrifice prepared by Manoah, and ascending to haven in the flame of the burnt-offering (Judges 6:21; Judges 13:19-20). ), without any angelic form being visible in either case. Who the messenger or angel of Jehovah was, must be determined in each particular instance from the connection of the passage; and where the context furnishes no criterion, it must remain undecided. It was not in Haran, as a casual reading of Genesis 12 might incline us to believe, but in Ur. Question:Clive wrote"I really enjoyed your Bible study. Our glorious God appeared to our ancestor Abraham in Mesopotamia before he settled in Haran." Hence, it follows that Isaac, his seed, was born thirty years after the call of Abram. Through all of his experiences he must come to see God as the origin of all that will endure. Stagers, Genesis, p . Abraham was the tenth generation from Noah through Shem and was born 352 years after the Deluge, in 2018 B.C.E. When you stop to think about it, Abram had no concrete, tangible proof that a life of blessing lay ahead, outside of Ur, away from his family. Ur was a large and prosperous city-state in Mesopotamia (present-day southern Iraq). 32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran. Charan was Lot's father so he lived to be at least a young man, but he died before his own father Terah did. While the exact meaning of the expression, called upon the name of the Lord may not be known, worship is surely described. But this exclusiveness contained from the very first the germ of universalism. The faith to which we are called is not faith in a plan, but faith in a person. It could be that they left in obedience to the call of God, which we read more of in Genesis 12. (5) The Christian walk is simply doing what God has told us to do and believing that He is leading us as we do so. "They came to Haran and dwelt there." Do stay around and if you are willing to answer another questions, please read. God was going to make a new nation, not merely revise an existing one. Haran.The Charran of Acts 7:4, that is, Carrhae in North-west Mesopotamia, about twenty geographical miles south-east of Edessa. "A faith, which laid hold of the word of promise, and on the strength of that word gave up the visible and present for the invisible and future, was the fundamental characteristic of the patriarchs" (Delitzsch). To subscribe to this RSS feed, copy and paste this URL into your RSS reader. We should not find this discouraging, but consistent with our own reluctance to put our future on the line in active, aggressive, unquestioning faith. At least two things must be said in response to this question. When Abram had an encounter with God, [1] this brother directed his family to leave their native land and go to the land of Canaan. Why did God allow Lots daughters to later have sex with their father? Terah, their father, coordinated the gathering of his family to journey west to their destination ( Genesis 11:31 ). 3, app.). Abrams early history is partly that of his gradual disentanglement from country, kindred and fathers house, a process not completed until the end of chapter 13. Derek Kidner, Genesis (Chicago: InterVarsity Press, 1967), p. 113. Here was the basis for the great name that God would give to Abram. He is removed to the better country, and by his departure contributes no doubt to deepen the faith of his son Abram, of his grandson Lot, and of his daughter-in-law Sarai. Even to Noah He revealed Himself before the flood as one who was present on the earth. We gather also that the Divine summons came to Abram in Ur (see Genesis 15:7; Nehemiah 9:7; Acts 7:2), but we learn in Genesis 12:1 that his final destination was not then definitely told him. The mid-life crisis would have been past history for him. I can identify with men and women like this. He said in his comments on Genesis 12:7. The Hebrew word for "served" can also mean to "work," hence the tradition that Terah was a craftsman who made idols. Conclusion It would be many years before Abram would fully grasp that this heir that God had promised would come from the union of he and Sarai. Terah is identified as the person who arranged and led the family to embark on a mysterious journey to Canaan. Moses account of his initial steps of faith makes it evident that much was to be desired, and to be developed in him. God commanded Terah to leave Ur of Chaldees for the land of Canaan in Genesis 11:31. b. Why do scholars think Abraham came from Ur in Mesopotamia? Jacob, after his return from Paddan-aram, came first to Shechem (33:18). Benjamin of Tudela (p) speaks of it as in being in his time, and as two days journey from the entrance into the land of Shinar or Mesopotamia; and says, that in that place where was the house of Abraham, there is no building on it, but the Ishmaelites (the Mahometans) honour the place, and come thither to pray. 5: The fact that Genesis 11:10-31 is the record made by Shem. The relationship between the command of God to Abram in verse 1 and the incident at Babel in chapter 11 should not be overlooked. Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Charran; and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell" Acts 7:2-4. they came unto Harantwo days' journey south-southeast from Ur, on the direct road to the ford of the Euphrates at Rakka, the nearest and most convenient route to Palestine. Rauwolff, who was in this town A. D. 1575, calls it Orpha; his account of it is this (q), that it is a costly city, with a castle situated on the hill very pleasantly; that the town is very pleasant, pretty big, with fortifications well provided; and that some say it was anciently called Haran and Charras: a later traveller (r) says, who also calls it Orpha,"the air of this city is very healthful, and the country fruitful; that it is built four square, the west part standing on the side of a rocky mountain, and the east part tendeth into a spacious valley, replenished with vineyards, orchards, and gardens: the walls are very strong, furnished with great store of artillery, and contain in circuit three English miles, and, for the gallantness of its sight, it was once reckoned the metropolitical seat of Mesopotamia. It is of interest to note that Islam holds Abram second in importance to Mohammed, with the Koran referring to Abraham 188 times.128. we get two critically different instances in which God told Abe to go to Canaan without his father's household. Hence, they all abode in Haran for the remainder of the five years from the date of Abram's call to leave his native land. In the final analysis, that is all anyone can have. Genesis 11:31 tells us that Ter'ah took Abraham, Lot, and Sarai, and began the journey to Canaan, perhaps out of grief for the loss of his son Haran, but certainly before the call on Abraham. This I believe to be a significant observation, for many Christians seem to feel that Gods way is the way of the bizarre and the unusual. Abram told his father that Yahweh had instructed them to leave. The need for spiritual purity surpassed the need for genetic purity at this particular point in time. We must remember that Cassuto, as a Jew, did not regard the New Testament to be authoritative. Terah was a high priest of the idol worshippers. Thank God our spiritual lives are ultimately dependent upon His faithfulness and not ours. rev2023.3.1.43266. (4) The Christian walk is rooted in the reliability of the Word of God. Genesis 11:26-32 tells that Terah was a son of Nahor, the son of Serug, who was a descendant of Shem. To our knowledge, he had no particular spiritual qualities which drew God to him. Broken down with fatigue, he halts for a season at Haran to recruit his wasted powers. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot. Did Abraham leave Haran before or after his father died? At both Shechem and Bethel he built altars, like Abram, his grandfather (33:20; 35:7). At the time of the call, Abram did not know where this land was. I believe it. verse 6). And if we are honest with ourselves, that is just about where most of us are. Why is the article "the" used in "He invented THE slide rule"? (Antiqu. People came to offer sacrifices to these idols, or to buy them, and Terah had a thriving business. Rather, your question should be: why did Abraham leave Haran. Specifically, Stephen's comment, in reply to the high priest (Acts 7:1), is based on Jewish oral tradition, and was recognized by the Jewish High Counsel (called the "Sanhedren"). These appearances, which were constantly repeated from that time forward, must have taken place from heaven; for we read that Jehovah, after speaking with Abram and the other patriarchs, "went away" (Genesis 18:33), or "went up" (Genesis 17:22; Genesis 35:13); and the patriarchs saw them, sometimes while in a waking condition, in a form discernible to the bodily senses, sometimes in visions, in a state of mental ecstasy, and at other times in the form of a dream (Genesis 28:12.). Can a private person deceive a defendant to obtain evidence? Having called Abram, it was God Who providentially brought Abram to the point of leaving home and homeland and entering Canaan. The angel of God, who shows the sacred seer the heavenly Jerusalem, and who is supposed to say, "Behold, I come quickly" (Revelation 22:7), and "I am Alpha and Omega" (Revelation 22:13), refuses in the most decided way the worship which John is about to present, and exclaims, "See I am thy fellow-servant: worship God.". Abram, like Paul, and true believers of every age, would acknowledge that it was God Who sought him out and saved him, on the basis of divine grace. This view was adopted by many Romish theologians, by the Socinians, Arminians, and others, and has been defended recently by Hoffmann, whom Delitzsch, Kurtz, and others follow. Did God give an oath to Isaac as alluded in Psalms 105:8-10? With God's calling of Terah in verse 31, Ancient Israel was set on an irrevocable course. Abram was, in our vernacular, no spring chicken when he left Haran for Canaan. So Terah was finally convinced to believe that Shem's advice was right. The beginning of Genesis 12:1 indicate that the call had already been given and the response was only now being recorded. in relation to Terah's genealogy, Abram's family in relation to Terah's death, the form of the 'calling' verb, the country Abram departed from, and the narrative art of the literary piece. Terahs migration was partly perhaps a movement of a tribe of the Semites northwards (see Note on Genesis 11:28), made restless by the Elamites, who about this time overran Western Asia; but chiefly it had a religious motive: for Ur was the especial seat of the worship of the moon-god, Sin; and though Terah had not attained to the purity of Abrahams faith, yet neither was he altogether an idolater. Abram had two brothers, Nahor and Charan (often anglicized as "Haran"), but Charan died. For the nation was to grow out of the family, and in the lives of the patriarchs its character was to be determined and its development foreshadowed. Moses did not give us all the background needed to properly grasp the significance of the call of Abram, but it has been recorded for us in the Bible. Did Abraham meet Jacob as alluded in Hebrews 11:9? - On the other hand, the objection is raised, that in the New Testament, which is confessedly the Greek rendering of , is always a created angel, and for that reason cannot be the uncreated Logos or Son of God, since the latter could not possibly have announced His own birth to the shepherds at Bethlehem. 2. And in the land of Kenaan was Melkizedec, the king of Salem, and the priest of the Most High God. We reached the conclusion that God called Abram to leave Ur in order to travel to Canaan, and he did that before Terah's death, although he Cassuto concludes that Abrams journey unknowingly outlined the territory which would belong to Israel, and that the places he stopped symbolically forecast the future conquest of the land.137 In an additional comment, Cassuto adds the fact that these places were also religious centers of Canaanite worship.138 In effect, Abrams actions of building altars and proclaiming the name of the Lord prophesied the coming time when true religious worship would overcome the pagan religion of the Canaanites. . This whole calculation exactly agrees with the incidental statement of Paul to the Galatians Gal 3:17 that the law was four hundred and thirty years after the covenant of promise. So we know that Abraham told his father Terah to leave, because God appeared to Abraham, not Terah. On the form in which God appeared, in most instances, nothing is related. Stephen calls it Charran it is by Herodian (l) called by Ptolemy (m) Carrae, by Pliny (n) Carra, a city famous in Lucan (o) for the slaughter of Crassus, by whom it is called an Assyrian city. At Babel men chose to disregard the command of God to disperse and populate the earth. Abe passed God's first personal test. Personally I believe that there is some kind of missionary function being carried out by Abram. They strove to find security and renown by banding together and building a great city (11:3-4). Hence, Abram is placed first in the list of Terah's sons, simply on account of his personal pre-eminence as the father of the faithful and the ancestor of the promised seed; he and his brother Nahor are both much younger than Haran, are married only after his death, and one of them to his grown-up daughter Milkah; and he and his nephew Lot are meet companions in age as well as in spirit. Those who first read the book of Genesis were about to take possession of the land which was promised Abram. Most of the errors so popular in Christian circles concerning the nature of the life of faith can be corrected by a study of the life of Abraham. That is the message of the New Testament (cf. Still, there may have been some tradition in the family, or knowledge handed down from patriarchal times, which made them look upon Canaan as their land of hope; and the expedition of Amraphel, king of Shinar, and others against the south of Palestine, recorded in Genesis 14:1-16, and confirmed by our large present knowledge of these popular movements, shows that we must not assume that, far removed from one another as were Babylonia and Canaan, therefore they were lands mutually unknown. Terah may have told Abraham why he was leaving Ur and why he decided to settle in Haran. Once in the land of Canaan, the route taken by Abram is noteworthy. Terah traveled 150 miles out of his way. But the opinion of the early Church has been vindicated most thoroughly by Hengstenberg in his Christology.). This intimates that he would have proceeded with the others to the land of Kenaan if his life had been prolonged, and likewise that they did not leave Haran until his death. Abram died at the ripe old age of 175 (25:7-8), a much shorter time than Shem (11:10-11) or Arpachshad (11:12-13). (Antiqu. 4 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. When he is commanded to sacrifice Isaac, he must obey with a willing heart of love, yet somehow see through to balance the command with the promise of the seed of a nation and leave the outcome to God and to find in God all sufficiency. It was not until chapter 15 that a full description of the land was given: On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates: (Genesis 15:18). But this important difference has been overlooked, that according to Greek usage, denotes an (any) angel of the Lord, whereas according to the rules of the Hebrew language means the angel of the Lord; that in the New Testament the angel who appears is always described as without the article, and the definite article is only introduced in the further course of the narrative to denote the angel whose appearance has been already mentioned, whereas in the Old Testament it is always "the Angel of Jehovah" who appears, and whenever the appearance of a created angel is referred to, he is introduced first of all as "an angel" (vid., 1 Kings 19:5 and 1 Kings 19:7). And, most important, I can find hope for a person like myself. To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers. This is the reason why we have placed one hundred and thirty (seventy and sixty), in the genealogical table opposite Terah, because the line of descent is not traced through Haran, who was born when he was seventy, but through Abram, who by plain inference was born when he was one hundred and thirty years old. This is why, despite that Stephen says that God had called Abe the first time prior to when Abe left Ur to settle in Haran, the ending of Genesis 11 credits Terah for taking his household, including Abe, to go to Canaan. (q) Travels, par. It will be observed, also, that we have set down seventy opposite Abram as the date of his call, from which is counted the definite period of four hundred and thirty years to the exodus. The sovereignty of God in salvation is beautifully illustrated in the call of Abram. They lived in a city called Ur . Genesis 2:5). Pharsal. In the words of Vos, Regardless of when Abraham left Ur, he turned his back on a great metropolis, setting out by faith for a land about which he knew little or nothing and which could probably offer him little from a standpoint of material benefits.132. For unknown reasons, Terah never made it to their destination but stopped and settled in Harran instead. Abraham received only one call (Genesis 12:1). Now Abram was one hundred years old when Isaac was born, and consequently the call was given when he was seventy years of age - about five years before he entered the land of Kenaan Genesis 12:4. This covenant is the thread which ties the rest of the Old Testament together. The surroundings were comfortable in the civilised city of Ur, so Terah may have been reluctant to leave. Lucan. Thus, he seems to have rejected Stephens words flatly. The tent is thus the symbol of the pilgrim. More insights from your Bible study - Get Started with Logos Bible Software for Free! 130 Cf. God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, the One Abram looked for in the future, to die on the cross to suffer the penalty for mans sin. Abram was called, that through him all the families of the earth might be blessed (Genesis 12:1-3). The incongruity of God's covenant with Abram in Gen 12:1? Terah was just too old, by that time, to actually make any life in Canaan, and might even have died from the long journey that would have been required to get all the way to Canaan. First, what would motivate Terah to uproot his family and leave the great city of Ur to travel 1,000 miles to the land of Canaan? When he is promised a land, and when that land is not given, he must look beyond the promise to its Maker so that he may understand. However, for whatever reason Terah decided to cut his journey short and settle everybody in a place called Haran. Without it we are inclined to think that the call of Abram came at Haran, rather than at Ur. There is a dispute about that too, if we take into account the Samaritan Pentateuch we accept a version that states that Terah only lived 145 years. Terah, it seems, decided to stay in the northern Mesopotamian "city of Haran," (no connection with his son Haran) rather than continue the journey to Canaan, which was the family's original intent. Acts 17:27). It is quite possible that God made the three promises to Abraham's father Terah first, but he failed the test by remaining in Haran. The report of this comparatively favorable state of things in the land of Kenaan would be an additional incentive to the newly enlightened family of Terah to accompany Abram in obedience to the divine call. The dispersion of the descendants of the sons of Noah, who had now grown into numerous families, was necessarily followed on the one hand by the rise of a variety of nations, differing in language, manners, and customs, and more and more estranged from one another; and on the other by the expansion of the germs of idolatry, contained in the different attitudes of these nations towards God, into the polytheistic religions of heathenism, in which the glory of the immortal God was changed into an image made like to mortal man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things (Romans 1:23 cf. As we turn our attention to Genesis chapter 12 let us do so with an eye to Abraham as an example of the walk of faith. Stephen informs us in Acts 7:2 "Brothers and fathers, listen to me. Why did Lot offer up his daughters to be gang raped? Terah wanted to leave Ur because he was afraid a war would start. Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. We have already seen that Abram was seventy-five years of age at the death of Terah. Over 40 Old Testament references are made to Abraham. On the other hand, Gods command was deliberately vague. Acts 7:2-4 supports this single call theory: The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham when he was in In other cases He revealed Himself merely by calling and speaking from heaven, without those who heard His voice perceiving any form at all; e.g., to Hagar, in Genesis 21:17., and to Abraham, Genesis 22:11. 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