Ge 12:1-20. CALL TO ABRAM.
1. Now the Lord had said unto Abram--It pleased God, who has
often been found of them who sought Him not, to reveal Himself to
Abraham perhaps by a miracle; and the conversion of Abraham is one of
the most remarkable in Bible history.
Get thee out of thy country--His being brought to the knowledge
and worship of the true God had probably been a considerable time
before. This call included two promises: the first, showing the land
of his future posterity; and the second, that in his posterity all the
earth was to be blessed
(Ge 12:2).
Abraham obeyed, and it is frequently mentioned in the New Testament as
a striking instance of his faith
(Heb 11:8).
JFB.
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