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The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.
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God's Sovereign Timing
Commentators unanimously explain that Terah's death was not an incidental detail but the specific trigger for Abram's final journey to Canaan. Citing Stephen's speech in Acts 7, they show that God moved Abram after his father died. This verse reveals that God's plan unfolds on His sovereign schedule, using even the end of a life to begin a new chapter in His story of redemption.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
19th Century
Anglican
The days of Terah. —See note on Genesis 11:26. According to the Samaritan text, Abram left Haran in the same year that Terah died.…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the days of Terah were two hundred years His days are summed up as none of the rest are in this genealogy, that …
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