Abraham in Haran

“Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. But Sarai was barren; she had no child. And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.”

This is just a short document that the Lord preserved so that we can move from the story of redemption through the Flood to the time when God chose to focus on one group after the world had been polluted by sin again. Sin has a way of debasing a nation so God decided to take one pure man and move His plan of Salvation forward with a group of believers who would not become polluted by sin. Terah was one of those, very important, people who kept the faith and allowed the line to move forward Shem was old and remained in his place until he died so Terah filled in the gap to let us know how Abram happened to be where he was when God called him to set out and he set out. Abram (Abraham) is the most important person in the book of Genesis but there is not a passage entitled, “these are the generation of Abraham.” If he was so important and there was any other explanation than the colophon explanation then we would expect to have a list of his generations. Abraham was a man who “believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.” (Genesis 15: 6) He was a man of action and was too involved in believing the Lord and setting out on the journey that others were left to recount the story of his life. This is one, very good, reason to accept the truth of Genesis for is, as many say, it was fiction then the writers would make sure to have a section attributed to the major character.

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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)