Genesis 11:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

See Joshua 24:2 Nehemiah 9:7 1 Chronicles 1:26. Being informed by his son of the command of God, Terah did not despise it, because it came to him by the hands of his inferior, but cheerfully obeyeth it; and therefore he is so honourably mentioned as the head and governor of the action. Terah and Abram went with Lot and Sarai, as their heads and guides. Haran is called Charran, Acts 7:4, and by the Romans Carrae, a place in in Mesopotamia strictly so called, in the way to Canaan, and near to it, well known by Crassus defeat there: see Genesis 24:10, Genesis 28:10 29:4. Dwelt there; or, rested or abode, being detained there for a season; peradventure by Terah's disease, which begun there, for Genesis 11:32 tells us of his death.

Genesis 11:31

31 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.