Genesis

 

 

 

Genesis 12:1 - 12:20   Pages 1-8

 

  In Genesis 11, we left off with Abram, his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and Teraha, Abram's father, leaving Ur of the Chaldees (Babylon), and stopping at Haran. There Abram's father Terah died. God had evidently told Abram to get out of Babel, obviously because of the abominations and mixing which was happening there. The word 'Babel' means 'confusion' (Strong's 894). We will also learn in this Chapter another reason why Abram was to get out of that land, as his seed was to inherit the land of Canaan. We now continue in our Father's Word, as we ask a Word of Wisdom in Christ Yeshua's Name, Amen.

Gen 12:1    Now the LORD had said unto Abram, "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
2    And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3    And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."

     God had already told Abram to get out of 'confusion' (Babel), and to a land which God would point out to him. We know from Genesis 11:31 that land would be Canaan, but God would shew him exactly which parts.
     This is the first mention of the Covenant Promise God made with Abram that his seed would inherit the land in Canaan, and that through him a blessing would come. That Blessing would be the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ through Abram and Sarai's seed line. The Blessing in Christ, we'll soon discover, is to all nations and peoples who accept Jesus Christ as their Saviour. By  Him, "shall all the families of the earth be blessed", meaning those who believe on Christ Jesus as Saviour.

 

 

Gen 12:4    So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

5    And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

     Abram and Sarai had no children yet, but they believed The Lord, obeyed, and came to the land of Canaan, with a remnant of "souls" from Haran, and with Lot.

Gen 12:6    And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. (And the Canaanite was then in the land.)

     This "Sichem" is also called 'Shechem' in Gen.33:18 where Jacob bought a parcel of land and pitched his tent. This "Sichem" is also the place called "Sychar" where our Lord Jesus met the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well (John 4). "Sichem" is the Hebrew word 'Shekem', meaning 'shoulder or back', so named because it was situated as a shoulder between two rivers and mountain ranges. It was very fertile soil. Shechem would be made one of the cities of refuge by Joshua, called "Shechem in Mount Ephraim".

 

 Josh.20:7: And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shecham in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah