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Terah
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
or The son of Nahor, and father of Nahor, Haran, and Abraham, Genesis 11:24 , begot Abraham at the age of seventy-two years, in Ur of the Chaldeans. Upon Abraham's first call to remove into the land of promise, Terah and all his family went with him as far as Haran, in Mesopotamia, about B. C. 1918, Genesis 11:31-32 . He died there the same year, aged two hundred and seventy-five years. Scripture intimates plainly that Terah had fallen into idolatry, or had for a time mingled some idolatrous practices with the worship of the true God, Joshua 24:2,14; and some think that Abraham himself at fist did the same thing; but that afterwards God, being gracious to him, convinced him of the vanity of this worship, and that he undeceived his father Terah.
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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Terah'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ats/t/terah.html. 1859.
