CONTENTS The history of the Patriarch Abram, is continued through the whole of this Chapter. He is still in his pilgrimage state, wandering and removing under the guidance of Heaven, from one place to another. His wealth is here particularly noticed; as also his remarkable piety. But troubles beset... [ Continue Reading ]
And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai; Bethel; that is the house of God, made remarkable by divine manifestations, Genesis 28:19; Genesis 35:1... [ Continue Reading ]
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. Such are all creature comforts! See 1 Timothy 6:9... [ Continue Reading ]
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 is it not a serious question, whether the disputes and contentions among the professors of godliness, do not give occasion frequently to th... [ Continue Reading ]
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. Sweet and endearing argument! Oh! that it were more generally made use of, and its power more gen... [ Continue Reading ]
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. See the cause of this mistaken choice, 1 John 2:16; Ezekiel 16:49.... [ Continue Reading ]
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: Observe God's renewed visit to Abram. How much better was the patriarch in a barren land, with God for his portio... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. If the Reader wishes to observe, how very precious the exercise of Abram's faith was upon this occasion, I refer him to the account of it in Stephen's Sermon:... [ Continue Reading ]
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee. Was not this a type of Emanuel's land, the glory of all lands? And is not every true believer like the patriarch, called upon to enter upon the possession of it by faith here, before he comes to... [ Continue Reading ]
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. Still in a pilgrimage state. Observe Abram again builds an altar. And what doth his conduct in this instance teach, but this, that it is very meet, right, and our bound... [ Continue Reading ]