John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 11:25

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Nahor lived, after he begat Terah, one hundred and ninteen years, etc.] In all one hundred and forty eight years; so sensibly did the lives of the patriarchs decrease: in the days of Nahor, the Arabic writers f854 say, was a great earthquake, which had never been observed before; idolaters increasing and offering their children to demons, God raised a tempest like a deluge, which broke their images and destroyed their temples in Arabia, and covered them in heaps of sand, which remained to the days of those writers, as they affirm: in his days it is also said Spain, Portugal, and Arragon were founded f855: and begat sons and daughters; of whom no other account is given: he died, as a Jewish chronologer says f856, in the one hundred and tenth year of Abraham.

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