Abram stay there until his father, Terah, died. Abram stay there until his father, Terah, died

• Lesson 9

Abram stay there until his father, Terah, died.

• Abram stay there until his father, Terah, died.

• When Abram left Haran, Nahor (Abram’s brother) and his family, along with their family idols, remained in Haran.

• While at Haran, Abram and Sarai led others to worship and to serve the true God, and these people left Haran with them.

• Haran is close to the city of Nahor (Gen. 24:10), where Abraham’s servant returned to find a wife for Isaac.

The bones of Joseph were buried there.

• The bones of Joseph were buried there.

• Jacob’s well, beside which Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman, was in Shechem.

• Joseph’s brothers took their father’s flocks to Shechem, and it was there that Joseph went to find them, but they had already left Shechem for Dothan. (It was at Dothan that the brothers captured Joseph and threw him in a pit.)

Jacob took all the strange gods of his household and all of the earrings of his household and hid them under an oak in Shechem.

• Jacob took all the strange gods of his household and all of the earrings of his household and hid them under an oak in Shechem.

• Abimelech was made king in Shechem, and when Jotham was told about it, he climbed to the top of Mount Gerizim and addressed the Shechemites.

offered children in sacrifices to Molech.

• offered children in sacrifices to Molech.

• had strong cities with high walls (Jericho was one of them).

• had abandoned themselves to the foulest and most debasing heathenism. (PP 492)

• owned the Cave of Machpelah which Abraham bought.

• were idolators.

• battled Joshua at Bethhoron, when the sun stood still.

were without natural affection, idolators, adulterers, murderers, and abominable by every corrupt thought and revolting practice. (PP 688)

• were without natural affection, idolators, adulterers, murderers, and abominable by every corrupt thought and revolting practice. (PP 688)

• were cruel and licentious. (MH 280)

• had filled up their measure of iniquity.

• lived only to blaspheme heaven and to defile the earth.

• of Hazor were led by Sisera at one time.

held communion with evil spirits (PP 688).

• held communion with evil spirits (PP 688).

• had neighbors of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

• were idolators, and Abraham would not allow Isaac to have a Canaanite wife.

• were wives of Esau.