Genesis 12:9

And Abram toke his iourney, goyng and iourneying towarde the south.

Bible (Bishops')

In The King James Version

And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

In Context

8And remouyng thence vnto a mountayne that was eastwarde from Bethel, he pitched his tent, hauyng Bethel on the west syde, & Hai on the east: and there he buyldyng an aulter vnto the Lorde, dyd call vpon the name of the Lorde.

10[And] the there was a famine in that lande, and therfore went Abram downe into Egypt, that he myght soiourne there, for there was a greeuons famine in the lande.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:1And so Abram gat hym vp out of Egypt, he and his wife, and al that he had, and Lot with hym, toward the South.

Genesis 20:1And Abraham departed thence towarde the south countrey, & dwelled betweene Cades and Sur, and soiourned in Gerar.

Genesis 24:62And Isahac was commyng from the waye of the well of the lyuyng and seeyng me: for he dwelt in the South countrey.

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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