Now the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 1. Said: not after his father’s death, but before he left Ur; ( Menochius.) unless, perhaps, Abram received a second admonition at Haran, which, from his dwelling there with his father, and so forth, is styled his country. He leaves his kindred, Nachor and his other relations, except Sarai and Lot, who go with him unto Chanaan; and even his own house, or many of his domestics and effects, and full of faith, goes in quest of an unknown habitation. Hebrews 11:8. Bible.—S. Stephen clearly distinguishes these two calls of Abram. From the second, the 430 years of sojournment, mentioned Galatians 3. Exodus 12, must be dated. Calmet.—This is the third grand epoch of the world, about 2083, when God chooses one family to maintain the one faith, which he had all along supported. See Worthington. and so forth