And it came to pass, after these things
Abraham's taking his son Isaac to the land of Moriah, building an
altar on one of the mountains there, and laying him on it with an
intention to sacrifice him, and offering of a ram in his stead,
and the return of them both to Beersheba: that it was told
Abraham;
by some person very probably who was lately come from those parts
where the following persons lived; though Jarchi suggests this
was told him by the Lord himself, and while he was thinking of
taking a wife for Isaac of the daughters at Aner, or Eshcol, or
Mamre; and to prevent which the following narration was given
him: saying, behold Milcah, she hath also borne children
unto thy brother
Nahor;
as Sarah, supposed to be the same with Iscah, a daughter of
Haran, had borne a son to him, and whom he had received again as
from the dead; so Milcah, another daughter of Harsh, had borne
children to his brother Nahor, whom he had left in Ur of the
Chaldees, when he departed from thence, and who afterwards came
and dwelt in Haran of Mesopotamia; see ( Genesis
11:27 Genesis
11:29 ) .