Genesis 12:9

Thus Abram brake up, again and again, towards the South.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

In Context

8And he moved on from thence towards the hill country, on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent,—with Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east, and built there an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.

10And it came to pass that there was a famine, in the land,—so Abram went down towards Egypt, to sojourn there, because grievous, was the famine in the land.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:1So Abram came up out of Egypt he and his wife and all that he had and Lot with him, towards the South.

Genesis 20:1And Abraham brake up from thence, towards the land of the South, and fixed his dwelling between Kadesh and Shur, so he sojourned in Gerar.

Genesis 24:62Now, Isaac, had come in at the entrance, of Beer-lahai-roi,—for, he, was dwelling in the land of the South:

Hebrews 11:13In faith, all these died—not bearing away the promises, but, from afar, beholding and saluting them, and confessing that, strangers and sojourners, were they upon the land.

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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