Genesis 12:7

Genesis 12:7

5 Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and ^athe people whom they had acquired in ^bHaran, and they ^cdeparted to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.

6 Abram ^apassed through the land to the place of Shechem, ^bas far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. ^cAnd the Canaanites were then in the land.

7 ^aThen the Lord appeared to Abram and said, ^b“To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an ^caltar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

8 And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the Lord and ^acalled on the name of the Lord.

9 So Abram journeyed, ^agoing on still toward the South.

Abram in Egypt

10 Now there was ^aa famine in the land, and Abram ^bwent down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was ^csevere in the land.

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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And the Lord appeared to Abram - Probably in a vision, and spoke to him comfortable words; Unto thy seed will I give this land - No place or condition can shut us out from God's gracious visits. Abram is a sojourner, unsettled, among Canaanites, and yet here also he meets with him that lives, and sees him. Enemies may part us and our tents, us and our altars, but not us and our God.

**Other John Wesley's Notes entries containing Genesis 12:7:**

Genesis 28:18
Deuteronomy 11:30
Joshua 24:1
John 4:20
Hebrews 11:9

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