Gen 13 | TSK | STEP | Abram and Lot return with great riches out of Egypt. Strife arises between Abram's herdsmen and those of Lot. Abram meekly refers it to Lot to choose his part of the country, and Lot goes to Sodom. God renews the promise to Abram. He removes to Hebron, and there builds an altar. A.M. 2086. B.C. 1918. the south.The south of Canaan; as in leaving Egypt, it is said he "came from the south," (ver. 3,) and the southern part of the promised land lay north-east of Egypt.

Genesis 13

1 Abram and Lot return with great riches out of Egypt.

6 Strife arises between Abram's herdsmen and those of Lot.

8 Abram meekly refers it to Lot to choose his part of the country,

10 and Lot goes to Sodom.

14 God renews the promise to Abram.

18 He removes to Hebron, and there builds an altar.

A.M. 2086. B.C. 1918. the south.The south of Canaan; as in leaving Egypt, it is said he "came from the south," (ver. 3,) and the southern part of the promised land lay north-east of Egypt.

12:9-20; 20:1; 21:33; Jos 10:40; 18:5; 1Sa 27:10; 2Sa 24:7

24:35; 26:12,13; De 8:18; 1Sa 2:7; Job 1:3,10; 22:21-25; Ps 112:1-3

Pr 3:9,10; 10:22; Mt 6:33; 1Ti 4:8

from.

12:6,8,9

Beth-el and Hai.i.e., The place which was afterwards called Bethel by Jacob, and so called when Moses wrote; for its first name was Luz. (ch. 28:19.)

Unto.

18; 12:7,8; 35:1-3; Ps 26:8; 42:1,2; 84:1,2,10

called.

4:26; Ps 65:1,2; 107:1,8,15; 116:2,17; 145:18; Isa 58:9; Jer 29:12

Zep 3:9; 1Co 1:2; Eph 6:18,19

tents.

4:20; 25:27; Jer 49:29

36:6,7; Ec 5:10,11; Lu 12:17,18; 1Ti 6:9

a strife.

21:25; 26:20; Ex 2:17; 1Co 3:3; Ga 5:20; Tit 3:3; Jas 3:16; 4:1

Canaanite.

10:19; 12:6; 15:18-21; 34:30; Ne 5:9; Php 2:14,15; Col 4:5

1Th 4:12; 1Pe 2:12

dwelled.i.e., They were there when Abram and Lot came to pitch their tents in the land.

Let.

Pr 15:1; Mt 5:9; 1Co 6:6,7; Php 2:14; Heb 12:14; Jas 3:17,18

brethren. Heb. men, brethren.

11:27-31; 45:24; Ex 2:13; Ps 133:1; Ac 7:26; Ro 12:10; Eph 4:2,3

1Th 4:9; Heb 13:1; 1Pe 1:22; 2:17; 3:8; 4:8; 2Pe 1:7; 1Jo 2:9-11

1Jo 3:14-19; 4:7,20,21

Is not.

20:15; 34:10

if thou wilt.

Ps 120:7; Ro 12:18; 1Co 6:7; Heb 12:14; Jas 3:13-18; 1Pe 3:8-12

and beheld.

3:6; 6:2; Nu 32:1-42; 1Jo 2:15,16

the plain.

19:17,24,25; De 34:3; 1Ki 7:46; Ps 107:34; 1Jo 2:15

the garden.

2:9,10; Isa 51:3; Eze 28:13; 31:8; Joe 2:3

Zoar.

14:2,8; 19:20,22-30; De 34:3; Isa 15:5; Jer 48:34Instead of "Zoar," which was situated at the extremity of the plain of Jordan, the Syriac reads "Zoan," which was situated in the south of Egypt, and in a well-watered country.

A.M. 2087. B.C. 1917. chose.

19:17

they.

9,14; Ps 16:3; 119:63; Pr 27:10; Heb 10:25; 1Pe 2:17

Lot dwelled.

19:29

pitched.

14:12; 19:1; Ps 26:5; 1Co 15:33; 2Pe 2:7,8

But the.

15:16; 18:20; 19:4-11; 1Sa 15:18; Isa 1:9; 3:9; Eze 16:46-50

Mt 9:10,13; 11:23,24; Joh 9:24,31; Ro 1:27; 2Pe 2:6-8,10; Jude 1:7

before.