Abram (also called Abraham).
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Abram (also called Abraham).
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Abram; the same is Abraham.
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Abram — the same is Abraham.
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Passages linked to 1 Chronicles 1:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 11:27-32 Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot. Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive. Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah. Sarai was barren. She had no child. Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there. The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.
- Joshua 24:2 Joshua said to all the people, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor. They served other gods.
- Nehemiah 9:7 You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave him the name of Abraham,
- Genesis 17:5 Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Abraham"s double name.
Abraham"s double name.
F.W. Robertson has some suggestive remarks on the significance of ancientnames in his sermon on "Jacob"s Wrestling" (vol. 1. pp. 41, 42). He recognizes in the Hebrew history three periods in which names and words bore very different characters. We deal with the first of these periods, when "names meant truths, and words were the symbols of realities. The characteristics of the names given then were simplicity and sincerity. They were drawn from a few simple sources: either from some characteristic of the individual, as Jacob, the "supplanter;" or from the idea of family, as Benjamin, "son of my right hand;" or from the conception of the tribe or nation, then gradually consolidating itself; or, lastly, from the religious idea of God." Scripture attaches significance to names, and the precise name indicates the minuteness of the Divine knowledge and the tenderness of the Divine care: "I have called thee by name," "I will give him a new name," etc. So a change of a man"s name may seal to him the fact of new, more important, and more tender Divine relations. Explain the precise force of the two names, Ab-ram and Ab-ra-ham, and give details of the occasion chosen for changing the names. (Ge 17) Then illustrate and enforce these three points
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I THE DIVINE INTEREST IN A MAN"S LIFE. This is so minutely detailed in such lives as these of Abraham and Jacob, that we may each gain the impression of its being the fact concerning ourselves. We are under the eye and in the hand.
II THE DIVINE RECOGNITION OF A MAN"S VIRTUE. Illustrate by the reason given for God"s telling Abraham of his proposed judgment on Sodom; by David"s appeal, "Judge me according to my integrity;" and Christ"s address to the Church at Ephesus, "I know thy works". (Rev_2:2)
III THE DIVINE COMMUNICATION OF DIVINE APPROBATiON. We indeed may not look to get a change of name, and yet we, too, may be quite sure that our progress in the Divine life has all its stages noticed and marked by God, and, it may be, sealed with a now "unknown name." We want to see the stages of our spiritual growth; it is enough that we learn from Abraham"s double name how God watches them, and surely marks them down ready for the by-and-by. R.T.
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