Genesis 13:10-13

10 Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
11 So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:
12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.
13 Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 13:10-13 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 13

  • 1. 1 Kings 7:46; 2 Chronicles 4:17
  • 2. Numbers 13:29; Numbers 33:48
  • 3. Genesis 2:8-10; Isaiah 51:3; Ezekiel 31:8-9
  • 4. Genesis 46:7
  • 5. Genesis 14:2; Genesis 19:22,30; Deuteronomy 34:3; Isaiah 15:5; Jeremiah 48:34
  • 6. Deuteronomy 29:23; Job 39:6; Psalms 107:34; Jeremiah 4:26
  • 7. Genesis 14:8; Genesis 19:17-29
  • 8. S Genesis 10:19
  • 9. S Genesis 11:27
  • 10. S ver 10; Ge 19:17,25,29
  • 11. Genesis 14:12
  • 12. Genesis 19:4; Isaiah 1:10; Isaiah 3:9
  • 13. Genesis 18:20; Genesis 19:5; Genesis 20:6; Genesis 39:9; Numbers 32:23; 1 Samuel 12:23; 2 Samuel 12:13; Psalms 51:4; Ezekiel 16:49-50; 2 Peter 2:8
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