Genesis 13:11-18

11 So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley, and Lot journeyed east. Thus they separated from each other.
12 Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
13 Now the men of Sodom 1were wicked, great sinners against the LORD.
14 The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, 2northward and southward and eastward and westward,
15 for all the land that you see I will give 3to you and 4to your offspring forever.
16 5I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
17 Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you."
18 So Abram moved his tent and came and 6settled by the 7oaks[a] of Mamre, which 8are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the LORD.

Genesis 13:11-18 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 13

This chapter gives an account of the return of Abram from Egypt to the land of Canaan, and to the same place in it he had been before, Ge 13:1-4 and of a strife between the herdsmen of Abram and Lot, and the occasion of it, Ge 13:5-7 which was composed by the prudent proposal of Abram, Ge 13:8,9 upon which they parted; Abram continued in Canaan, and Lot chose the plain of Jordan, and dwelt near Sodom, a place infamous for wickedness, Ge 13:10-13 after which the Lord renewed to Abram the grant of the land of Canaan to him, and to his seed, Ge 13:14-17 and then he removed to the plain of Mamre in Hebron, and there set up the worship of God, Ge 13:18.

Cross References 8

  • 1. Genesis 18:20; Ezekiel 16:49; 2 Peter 2:7, 8
  • 2. Genesis 28:14
  • 3. Genesis 17:8; Genesis 28:13; Genesis 35:12; Acts 7:5
  • 4. Genesis 12:7; Genesis 15:18; Genesis 24:7; Genesis 26:4; Deuteronomy 34:4; 2 Chronicles 20:7
  • 5. Genesis 22:17; Genesis 28:14; Genesis 32:12; Numbers 23:10; [1 Kings 3:8]; See Genesis 15:5
  • 6. Genesis 14:13
  • 7. Genesis 12:6
  • 8. Genesis 35:27

Footnotes 1

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