Genesis 12:1
This story about Abram started when God said to him, “Abram, I want you to leave your country, your father’s family and all your relatives, and go to the country that I will show you.
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Genesis 11:31Then Terah went away from Ur, in Chaldia country, and he took some of his family with him. They were his son Abram, and Abram’s wife Sarai, and his grand-son Lot. They all left Ur, and they started to go to the country called Canaan. But they stopped half-way, at a town called Haran, and they stayed there.
Genesis 20:13Then Abraham said, “God told me to leave my father’s country, so we moved around from place to place, and I was frightened of the people. So I told Sarah, ‘Be good to me and tell everyone that you are my sister. Then I will be safe.’”
Genesis 24:38No, you have to go to my father’s family and my other relatives, and get a wife for my son.’
Matthew Henry on Genesis 12:1
The pedigree and family of Abram we had an account of in the foregoing chapter; here the Holy Ghost enters upon his story, and henceforward Abram and his seed are almost the only subject of the sacred history. In this chapter we have, I. God's call of Abram to the land of Canaan, ver. 1-3 . II. Abram's obedience to this call, ver. 4, 5 . III. His welcome to the land of Canaan, ver. 6-9 . IV. His journey to Egypt, with an account of what happened to him there. Abram's flight and fault, ver. 10-13 . Sarai's danger… Read the whole commentary →