They helped every one his neighbour; and [every one] said to his brother, Be of good courage.
Ver. 6. They helped every one his neighbour.] Thus those desperate idolaters did from the first. Eusebius a telleth us, that in the seventh year of Abraham, Ninus, the founder of Nineveh, set up an image of his father Belus, which was worshipped after his death. So did other princes, by his example, not moved with God's mercies showed to Abraham, who worshipped the true God alone, setting up altars to him wherever he came.
a In Chron.