10 This is the account of Shem's family. Two years after the great flood, when Shem was 100Â years old, he became the father of Arphaxad. 11 After the birth of Arphaxad, Shem lived another 500Â years and had other sons and daughters. 12 When Arphaxad was 35Â years old, he became the father of Shelah. 13 After the birth of Shelah, Arphaxad lived another 403Â years and had other sons and daughters. 14 When Shelah was 30Â years old, he became the father of Eber. 15 After the birth of Eber, Shelah lived another 403Â years and had other sons and daughters. 16 When Eber was 34Â years old, he became the father of Peleg. 17 After the birth of Peleg, Eber lived another 430Â years and had other sons and daughters. 18 When Peleg was 30Â years old, he became the father of Reu. 19 After the birth of Reu, Peleg lived another 209Â years and had other sons and daughters. 20 When Reu was 32Â years old, he became the father of Serug. 21 After the birth of Serug, Reu lived another 207Â years and had other sons and daughters. 22 When Serug was 30Â years old, he became the father of Nahor. 23 After the birth of Nahor, Serug lived another 200Â years and had other sons and daughters. 24 When Nahor was 29Â years old, he became the father of Terah. 25 After the birth of Terah, Nahor lived another 119Â years and had other sons and daughters. 26 After Terah was 70Â years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 This is the account of Terah's family. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot. 28 But Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, the land of his birth, while his father, Terah, was still living. 29 Meanwhile, Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah. (Milcah and her sister Iscah were daughters of Nahor's brother Haran.) 30 But Sarai was unable to become pregnant and had no children. 31 One day Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai (his son Abram's wife), and his grandson Lot (his son Haran's child) and moved away from Ur of the Chaldeans. He was headed for the land of Canaan, but they stopped at Haran and settled there. 32 Terah lived for 205Â years and died while still in Haran.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Genesis 11:10-32
Commentary on Genesis 11:10-26
(Read Genesis 11:10-26)
Here is a genealogy, or list of names, ending in Abram, the friend of God, and thus leading towards Christ, the promised Seed, who was the son of Abram. Nothing is left upon record but their names and ages; the Holy Ghost seeming to hasten through them to the history of Abram. How little do we know of those that are gone before us in this world, even of those that lived in the same places where we live, as we likewise know little of those who now live in distant places! We have enough to do to mind our own work. When the earth began to be peopled, men's lives began to shorten; this was the wise disposal of Providence.
Commentary on Genesis 11:27-32
(Read Genesis 11:27-32)
Here begins the story of Abram, whose name is famous in both Testaments. Even the children of Eber had become worshippers of false gods. Those who are through grace, heirs of the land of promise, ought to remember what was the land of their birth; what was their corrupt and sinful state by nature. Abram's brethren were, Nahor, out of whose family both Isaac and Jacob had their wives; and Haran, the father of Lot, who died before his father. Children cannot be sure that they shall outlive their parents. Haran died in Ur, before the happy removal of the family out of that idolatrous country. It concerns us to hasten out of our natural state, lest death surprise us in it. We here read of Abram's departure out of Ur of the Chaldees, with his father Terah, his nephew Lot, and the rest of his family, in obedience to the call of God. This chapter leaves them about mid-way between Ur and Canaan, where they dwelt till Terah's death. Many reach to Charran, and yet fall short of Canaan; they are not far from the kingdom of God, and yet never come thither.