Genesis 11:25

25 Nachor lived after he became the father of Terach one hundred nineteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:25 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 11:25

And Nahor lived, after he begat Terah, one hundred and
ninteen years
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 ^F20 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 ^F21:

and begat sons and daughters;
of whom no other account is given: he died, as a Jewish chronologer says ^F23, in the one hundred and tenth year of Abraham.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 Patricides, p. 15. Elmacinus, p. 30. apud Hottinger. p. 279, 280.
F21 Juchasin, fol. 135. 2.
F23 R. Gedaliah, ut supra. (fol. 2. 1.)

Genesis 11:25 In-Context

23 Serug lived after he became the father of Nachor two hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

24 Nachor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terach.

25 Nachor lived after he became the father of Terach one hundred nineteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

26 Terach lived seventy years, and became the father of Avram, Nachor, and Haran.

27 Now this is the history of the generations of Terach. Terach became the father of Avram, Nachor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.