Genesis 12:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And the Lord appeared, &c.— Now that he was arrived in the promised land, the Lord graciously vouchsafed to appear to him again, and renew his covenant. "Abram," says Bishop Warburton, "at his first leaving his father's house, entirely resigned himself to the disposal of heaven, not knowing, for certain, whither he was to go." When he was come into the land of Canaan, his faith was rewarded by God with a farther revelation of his will; and he was now told, that this was the land which God said he would shew him, and which was to he inhabited by his seed. Upon which Abram built an altar there, that is, at the oak or oaks of Moreh, which afterwards became a sacred and venerable spot: the sanctuary was near it in Joshua's time, Joshua 1:18.