| Genesis 12:6
| Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.
| Sichem. At the foot of Mount Garizim, where Abram offered his first sacrifice in the land, Deuteronomy 11:30. (Kennicott) --- Noble; on account of the many tall and shady oaks, whence the Septuagint have the high oak. Hebrew Elon more, the plain of Moreh, or of ostension, because God shewed Abram from this place, situated about the middle of the promised land, what countries he would give to him in his posterity, after having exterminated the Chanaanites, who then occupied the land as their own. The mentioning of these idolatrous nations here, gives us reason to admire the faith and constancy of Abram, who neither doubted of the fulfilling of this promise, nor hesitated to adore the true God publicly, ver. 7. Hence there is no reason for accounting this an interpolation. (Haydock)
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