Surprise of the Day  

How old was Abraham when he left the idolatrous city of Ur (today’s southern Iraq) and why might God have told him to leave at that time?

Genesis 10:1 & 11:10-26  –  Genesis 11:28 & 31  – Genesis 12:1-4  –  Genesis 15:7  –   I Chronicles 11  –  Nehemiah 9:7  –  Acts 7:1-4

Fact of the Day

Five verses in the Bible say God called Abraham out of his hometown, the city of Ur in Chaldea near the Euphrates River (domain of Hammurabi later) in today’s Iraq. 

Genesis 12:1-4 says Abraham was 75 years old when God told him to leave Haran (in today’s SE Turkey).  If that had been God’s first promise of a son for Abraham, we could say he had to wait 25 years to have his promised son.  But God made the same promise when he told Abraham to leave Ur.  So…

1. …how old was Abraham when he left Ur?
2. …how many years did he have to wait to have that son? 

Start counting.  Genesis 10:1 and 11:10-26 gives the genealogy of Noah down to the time of Terah and his son, Abraham.  You will see that Abraham was 58 years old when Noah died.  Perhaps that is when and why God told him to leave. While Noah was still alive, he could protect Abraham, one of the few who believed in one God.   The Bible does not say how old Abraham was when God called him out of Ur.  But this is one strong possibility.

Also, that would mean he had to wait 42 years to have that promised son, not 25. 

Such faith!  Such amazing faith!

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