>>10709941Well that makes complete sense if one knows the context of who Abraham actually was.
The head Priest of the Temple of Ur who talked daily to King Nimrod
was named Terah and he had a son.. Who's name was Abram.
Abram was the great great Grandson of Reu who grew up in Babel during the construction of the tower of Babel.
God changed his name to Abraham. The Father of the Hebrews.
(We don't know for sure who Nimrod was but tradition tells us that he was "against" God.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod#Historical_interpretations(Possibly Gilgamesh or Sargon)
Terah, Abram’s father left Ur (Gen 11:31) of the Chaldeans, a town in Iraq SE of Babylon, on his way with his family as immigrants to Canaan.
While Terah did not make it out of Iraq, settling in Haran (Gen 11:31), Abram received his call from the heart of what is now Iraq. The Lord (YHWH) called Abram:
“Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing… in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed” (Gen 12:1-4).
Abraham founded the Hebrew nations...
