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<div class="head">Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia</div>
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<div class="subhead">Abram</div>
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<li><i>Birth</i>. He was born in Ur of the Chaldees, and was a direct descendant of Shem (<a id="si-Gen 11:10-32" onClick="return mV('Gen',1,'10-32');">Gen 11:10-32</a>).</li>
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<li><i>Date</i>. There is a difficulty in the chronology at this point. Compare <a id="si-Gen 11:26, 32" onClick="return mV('Gen',1,26,32);">Gen 11:26, 32</a>; <a id="si-Gen 12:4-5" onClick="return mV('Gen',2,'4-5');">Gen 12:4-5</a>; <a id="si-Act 7:1-4" onClick="return mV('Act',7,'1-4');">Act 7:1-4</a>. My solution of this question is the only one that will harmonize with all the facts and dates presented In the book of Genesis. When you reflect that it was customary in those ages, in the development of God's plan, to displace the elder with the younger, the matter becomes plainer. This was so with
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<li>Cain and Abel (<a id="si-Gen 4:1-7, 25" onClick="return mV('Gen',4,'1-7', 25);">Gen 4:1-7, 25</a>).</li>
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<li>Isaac and Ishmael (<a id="si-Gen 16:1-2, 16" onClick="return mV('Gen',6,1,2,16);">Gen 16:1-2, 16</a>; <a id="si-Gen 17:18-21" onClick="return mV('Gen',7,'18-21');">Gen 17:18-21</a>; <a id="si-Gen 21:1-5" onClick="return mV('Gen',1,'1-5');">Gen 21:1-5</a>).</li>
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<li>Jacob and Esau (<a id="si-Gen 25:19-26" onClick="return mV('Gen',5,'19-26');">Gen 25:19-26</a>).</li>
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<li>Ephraim and Manasseh (<a id="si-Gen 48:14-19" onClick="return mV('Gen',8,'14-19');">Gen 48:14-19</a>).</li>
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<li>Abram was the youngest, for he was only seventy-five years old when his father died (<a id="si-Gen 11:32" onClick="return mV('Gen',11,32);">Gen 11:32</a>; <a id="si-Gen 12:4" onClick="return mV('Gen',2,4);">Gen 12:4</a>; <a id="si-Act 7:1-5" onClick="return mV('Act',7,'1-5');">Act 7:1-5</a>). (<a id="si-Gen 11:26" onClick="return mV('Gen',11,26);">Gen 11:26</a>); Therefore implies that Terah was seventy years old when his first son was born; and from other considerations enumerated above, he was about one hundred thirty years when Abram was born. Sarah was Abram's half-sister (<a id="si-Gen 20:12" onClick="return mV('Gen',20,12);">Gen 20:12</a>), doubtless born of Terah's second marriage. There was only a difference of ten years in their ages (<a id="si-Gen 17:17" onClick="return mV('Gen',7,17);">Gen 17:17</a>). If Abram has been Terah's firstborn, he would have been one hundred thirty-five when Terah died, And it would be necessary to change the figures in reference to Sarah and make her one hundred twenty-five at this time! Further, it is stated that Abram had been eleven years in Canaan when Ishmael was born (<a id="si-Gen 16:1-16" onClick="return mV('Gen',16,'1-16');">Gen 16:1-16</a>). This would have made Sarah (125 + 11 = 136) one hundred thirty-six at Ishmael's birth. Isaac was born fourteen years after Ishmael (<a id="si-Gen 16:16" onClick="return mV('Gen',6,16);">Gen 16:16</a>; <a id="si-Gen 21:1-5" onClick="return mV('Gen',1,'1-5');">Gen 21:1-5</a>), hence this would have given Isaac no chance to have been born, for Sarah only lived one hundred twenty-seven years (<a id="si-Gen 23:1" onClick="return mV('Gen',23,1);">Gen 23:1</a>)! We therefore conclude that Abram was born two thousand eight years after the creation of Adam (<a id="si-Gen 5:3-32" onClick"return mV('Gen',5,'3-32');">Gen 5:3-32</a>; <a id="si-Gen 7:6, 11" onClick="return mV('Gen',7,6,11);">Gen 7:6, 11</a>; <a id="si-Gen 11:1-26" onClick="return mV('Gen',11,'1-26');">Gen 11:1-26</a>).</li>
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<li><i>His Call</i>. The Lord first spoke to him in Ur of Chaldees (<a id="si-Gen 12:1" onClick="return mV('Gen',12,1);">Gen 12:1</a>; <a id="si-Act 7:1-5" onClick="return mV('Act',7,'1-5');">Act 7:1-5</a>).</li>
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<li><i>The promises</i>. God gave him two great promises,
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<li>that he would make of him a great nation, bless him, make his name great, make him a blessing, bless those who blessed him, and curse those who cursed him;</li>
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<li>that in him should all families of the earth be blessed (<a id="si-Gen 12:1-3" onClick="return mV('Gen',2,'1-3');">Gen 12:1-3</a>).</li>
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<li>These promises were subsequently renewed on Mount Moriah (<a id="si-Gen 22:1-18" onClick="return mV('Gen',2,1);">Gen 22:1-18</a>). These promises were subsequently fulfilled in,
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<li>the covenant dedicated at Mount Sinai (<a id="si-Exd 24:1-8" onClick="return mV('Exd',4,'1-8');">Exd 24:1-8</a>),</li>
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<li>the new covenant (<a id="si-Gal 4:22-31" onClick="return mV('Gal',4,'22-31');">Gal 4:22-31</a>).</li>
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<p class="bibliobox"><b>Bibliographic Information:</b>
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<br>Author: Johnson, Ashley S.
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<br>Title: "Abram"
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<br>Work: <i>Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia</i>
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<br>Date Added: 1 Jul 2002</p>
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