Genesis 12:9

And Abram went forward, going, and proceeding on to the south.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

In Context

8And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east; he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.

10And there came a famine in the country; and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:1And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.

Genesis 20:1Abraham removed from thence to the south country, and dwelt between Cedes and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara.

Genesis 24:62At the same time Isaac was walking along the way to the well which is called Of the living and the seeing: for he dwelt in the south country.

Hebrews 11:13All these died according to faith, not having received the promises, but beholding them afar off, and saluting them, and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 12:7-10

Abram's Devotion. ( b. c. 1921.) 6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord , who appeared unto him. 8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord , and called upon the… Read the whole commentary →

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