Before completing the chronology to Abram we must examine the record. That

Abram was not the eldest son of Terah is discoverable, with other relevant details, as

follows: From Gen. 11: 32 we learn that Terah was 205 years old when he died. This

would be the year 2083. By including the word "had" the rendering of the Authorized

Version of Gen. 12: 1 is misleading. From Acts 7: 4 we learn that Abram left Haran

at the death of his father, and from Gen. 12: 4 we find that Abram was 75 years of age.

If Abram was 75 when his father died, and if his father was 205 at this death, if follows

that Terah was 130 years old when Abram was born. We can therefore complete the

chronology given above:

If the reader will glance at the list given previously it will be observed that the age of

the Patriarchs at the birth of their firstborn sons is about 30 years but in the case of

Terah we learn that he was 70 years old at the birth of his firstborn (Gen. 11: 26), and

130 years old at the birth of Abram. This accounts for the curious fact that Abram was

only 10 years older than his half-niece Sarah, for Sarah married her father Haran's

younger brother. Terah was probably married twice, for Abram told Abimelech,

Simple as this computation of the chronology of Terah to Abram may seem to us, now

that it is set out, it was not clearly seen until published by Archbishop Ussher. This

brings our chronology down to the great watershed of the Old Testament, for there are

approximately 2,000 years from the creation to Abraham, and there are approximately

2,000 years from Abraham to Christ. This being the case we cannot but realize that it is

with the experiences of the twelve tribes of Israel that the bulk of the Old Testament is

concerned, commencing at Exodus.

The fact that the first 2,000 years of history is contained within the compass of

eleven short chapters renders the enquiry as to who was Cain's wife, and similar

questions, both foolish and unprofitable.