Genesis 12:9

And Abram journeyed farther, still going on toward the south.

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And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

In Context

8And he removed from there unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and 'Ai on the east; and he built there an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.

10And there arose a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was 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 20:1And Abraham journeyed from there toward the south country, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur and sojourned in Gerar.

Genesis 24:62And Isaac came from a walk to the well Lachai-roi; for he dwelt in the south country;

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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