Category: Genesis Chapter 13
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Fatness in Communion – Genesis 13:18
Genesis 13:18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord. Abram keeps moving in the right direction. Lot set his eyes toward Sodom. Abram moved toward Mamre and Hebron. Lot chose what looked rich. Abram chose what…
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What Abram Gave Up Was Never Really Lost – Genesis 13:14-17
Genesis 13:14-17 And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. And…
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Nearer and Nearer – Genesis 13:11-13
Genesis 13:11-13 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners…
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Eyes Too Low – Genesis 13:10
Genesis 13:10 And Lot… … lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. There is a sharp contrast here between Abram…
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The Dignity of Letting Go – Genesis 13:9
Genesis 13:9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left. There is such dignity in Abram here. He does not…
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No Strife, I Pray Thee – Genesis 13:7-8
Genesis 13:7-8 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. And Abram said unto Lot… … Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen……
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Too Much to Stay Together – Genesis 13:5-6
Genesis 13:5-6 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. Abram and Lot had both increased greatly. Their flocks had multiplied, their herds had…
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Back to Where It Was Real – Genesis 13:1-4
Genesis 13:1-4 And Abram went up out of Egypt… … he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his…