Genesis 12:9

Abram travelled, still going on towards the South.

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And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

In Context

8He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the LORD’s name.

10There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

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Cross References

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

Genesis 20:1Abraham travelled from there towards the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

Genesis 24:62Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.

Hebrews 11:13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims 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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