Genesis 12:9

Then they left there and started traveling south to the Negev Desert.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

In Context

8From Shechem, Abram and his family traveled to the hills that were east of Bethel town. Bethel town was to the west of where they set up their tent, and Ai town was further to the east. There he built another stone altar and offered a sacrifice and worshiped Yahweh there.

10There was ◄a famine/very little food to eat► in Canaan, so they went south to live in Egypt for a while.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:1So Abram and Sarai left Egypt, and they took along all his possessions, and Lot went with them to the Negev Desert.

Genesis 20:1Abraham left Mamre and moved southwest to the Negev desert and lived in a place named Gerar, between Kadesh and Shur.

Genesis 24:62At that time, Isaac was living in the Negev desert. He had gone there from Beer-Lahai-Roi.

Hebrews 11:13It was while they still trusted in God that all those people died. Even though they had not yet received the things that God had promised to give them, it was as though they saw those things in a distance. They were glad to know about what God promised. It was as though they admitted that they were not from this earth, but that they were only here temporarily.

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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