Genesis 11:31

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Took

Genesis 11:26

Genesis 12:1

They went

Ur

Joshua 24:2

Nehemiah 9:7

Acts 7:2

General references

Genesis 28:10

Bible References

Took

And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:

They went

And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees.

Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:

And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods.

By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.

Ur

You are the Lord, the God, who took Abram and made him yours, guiding him from Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham;

And he said, My brothers and fathers, give hearing. The God of glory came to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he was living in Haran,

General references

So Jacob went out from Beer-sheba to go to Haran.