A. C. 2130. SECTION XXVI. Restoration of Job's Prosperity. 7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. 8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you : for * him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in face, or, per that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job. * Heb. his + Heb the face of Job. 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted + Job. 10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he + Heb. added prayed for his friends: also the LORD ‡ gave Job twice as all that had been to Job unto the double. much as he had before. 11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold. 12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters. 14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch. 15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. 16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. 17 So Job died, being old and full of days. CHAPTER III. The Life of Abraham 5. SECTION I. From the Birth and Call of Abraham till his Return from GENESIS XI. VER. 27, TO THE END. 27 begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah A.C. 1996. • With the Life of Abraham the Mosaic history may be said to commence : all that precedes being introductory to it. Though the knowledge of the One True God was not entirely banished from the world; yet it seems to have been so generally united with idolatrous corruptions, that God selected one family from the rest of mankind, to preserve uninterruptedly, by a course of laws and institutions, purity of religion, and belief in the Messiah. For this purpose the family of Abraham was chosen. His father's house was infected with the prevalent idolatry: but God, the angel Jehovah, (Acts vii. 2, &c.) appeared to Abraham, and commanded him to leave his country, and kindred, to seek another home. Abraham at this time dwelt at Ur, in Chaldæa, and in obedience to the Divine will he proceeded immediately to Haran in Mesopotamia, where his father Terah died. After the death of his father, the angel Jehovah again appeared to him; and assured him in his seed all "the families of the earth should be blessed." He then commanded him to leave Haran, and to wander over the earth as he should be directed by future revelations. If we consult the map of the countries through which Abraham passed; and consider at the same time the probable amount of the population of the earth at this period; we shall find that Abraham, in complying with the Divine command, preached the true religion to the great majority of mankind. And how impressive must have been the spectacle he presented to the world! A rich and powerful prince, attended with a large retinue of servants and retainers, traverses the earth, not for the purposes of war and conquest, as so many various tribes were then doing; but to preach the recovery of man from the effects of the Fall. So great was the check given to idolatry by this dispensation of Providence, that the effect of his preaching remained in some families till the age of Moses. And so universally was the fame of this great man extended, and so abundant is the evidence for the truth of this part of the narration of Moses, that the ancient Persians, the Hindoos, the Jews, the Lacedemonians, and the Arabians, have at various times united in celebrating his name, and declaring that their religion in its purity was the religion of Abraham.-Hales' Analysis, vol. ii. p. 124.Vide Heidegger, Exerc. 3. vol. ii. De Abrahamo; Bp. Cumberland's Originea Gent. p. 434, &c.; Calmet, art. Abraham; Bayle's Dict.; Witsius Ægyptiacorum, lib. 3. cap. 12. § 6. &c. &c.; Law's Theory of Religion, p. 65; Revelation examined with Candour, vol. ii. p. 216. A.C. 1996. 29 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. 30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child. 31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Neh. ix. 7. Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from a Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. Judith v. 7. 1936. þ Acts vii. 3. ech. xviii. 18. Acts iii. 25. & xxii. 18. Gal. iii. 8. 1921. 4 ch. xiii. 15. e ch, xiii. 4. 32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran. GENESIS XII. 1 God calleth Abram, and blesseth him with a promise of Christ. 4 He departeth with Lot from Haran. 6 He journeyeth through Canaan, 7 which is promised him in a vision. 10 He is driven by a famine into Egypt. 11 Fear maketh kim feign his wife to be his sister. 14 Pharaoh, having taken her from him, by plagues is compelled to restore her. 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.. 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. 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, d 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 name of the LORD. 9 And Abram journeyed, * going on still toward the A.C. 1920. south. 10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land. 11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon : 12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. 13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee. 14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. 15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. 16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. 17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife. 18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? 19 Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. 20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had. GENESIS XIII. VER. 1-5. 1 Abram and Lot return out of Egypt. 1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. 2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. 3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai; * Heb. in goneying. ing and jour 4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made f Ch. xii. 7. there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD. A.C. 1920. SECTION II. Separation of Abram and Lot. 5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. 6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together, for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. 7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. 8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and • Heb. men thy herdmen; for we be * brethren. brethren. g Ch. xii. 7. & xxvi. 4. 9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left. 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. 11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. 12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. SECTION III. Renewal of the Promise. GENESIS XIII. VER. 14, TO THE END. 14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : 15 For all the land which thou seest, & to thee will I give Deut. xxxiv. it, and to thy seed for ever. 4, 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. |