It had even infected those who descended from Patriarch Abraham. The Lord speaks through Joshua to the Jews: "our fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of ...

Pieter Lastman, “Abraham on the Way to Canaan,” 1614 ... have placed the city farther inland. The Bible says Terah, Abram’s father, took him and his wife Sarai as well as his nephew Lot ...