This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ... wind up his affairs, he took with him his son Abram, and his grandson Lot, with Sarai, the wile of the former, and set out with an intention of penetrating into the land of Canaan; but falling sick by the way, at a place called Haran, he was compelled to halt, and there, after a brief sojourn, he died. This last event befell, according to Dr. Hales, in the year of the world 3318, just one thousand and sixty years after the Deluge, and two thousand and ninety-three before Christ. CHAPTER VII. Abraham's History continued.--His travels.--Birth of Ishmael.-- Destruction of Sodom.--Birth of Isaac.--Ishmael dismissed.-- Sacrifice of Isaac.--His marriage.--Death of Sarah and Abraham.-- Objections noticed and answered. A. M. 3333 to 3398.--B. C. 2078 to 2013. How long Abram sojourned at Haran after the decease of his father, we possess no means of ascertaining; but we are told that God renewed the injunction in his case, which he had formerly given in the case of Terah, by commanding him to abandon Haran, and to continue his journey to a land which should be divinely pointed out to him. Along with this command, came an assurance, that God would bless, protect, and multiply his posterity in a wonderful manner, whilst the gracious promise which had previously been made, first to Adam, and afterwards to Noah, was distinctly and explicitly renewed to Abraham. " I will bless them that bless thee," said Jehovah, " and curse him that curseth thee; and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed." This was the more gratifying to Abram, because as yet no child had been born to him, though he himself was seventy-five, and his wife sixty-five years of age; and in proportion as the prospect of a family became daily more remote, the desire...