Genesis 13:1

_AND ABRAM WENT UP OUT OF EGYPT, HE, AND HIS WIFE, AND ALL THAT HE HAD, AND LOT WITH HIM, INTO THE SOUTH._ Went up ... south. Palestine being a highland country, the entrance from Egypt by its southern boundary is a continual ascent....

1._And Abram went up out of Egypt_. In the commencement of the chapter, Moses commemorates the goodness of God in protecting Abram; whence it came to pass, that he not only returned in safety, but took with him great wealth. This circumstance is also to be noticed, that when he was leaving Egypt, abounding in cattle and treasures, he was allowed to pursue his journey in peace; for it is surprising that the Egyptians would suffer what Abram had acquired among them, to be transferred elsewhere. Moses next shows that riches proved no sufficient obstacle to prevent Abram from having respect continually to his proposed end, and from moving towards it with unremitting pace. We know how greatly even a moderate share of wealth, hinders many from raising their heads towards heaven; while they who really possess abundance, not only lie torpid in indolence, but are entirely buried in the earth. Whe...

1-4 Abram was very rich: he was very heavy, so the Hebrew word is; for riches are a burden; and they that will be rich, do but load themselves with thick clay, Habakkuk 2:6. There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up about them. Yet God in his providence sometimes makes good men rich men, and thus God's blessing made Abram rich without sorrow, Proverbs 10:22. Though it is hard for a rich man to get to heaven, yet in some cases it may be, Mark 10:23; Mark 10:24. Nay, outward prosperity, if well managed, is an o...

CHAPTER XIII _Abram and his family return out of Egypt to Canaan_, 1, 2. _He revisits Beth-el, and there invokes the Lord_, 3, 4. _In consequence of the great increase in the flocks of Abram_ _and Lot, their herdmen disagree; which obliges the patriarch_ _and his nephew to separate_, 5-9. _Lot being permitted to make his choice of the land, chooses_ _the plains of Jordan_, 10,11, _and pitches his tent near to Sodom, while Abram abides in_ _Canaan_, 12. _Bad character of the people of Sodom_, 13....

- Abram and Lot Separate 7. פרזי _perı̂zı̂y_, Perizzi, “descendant of Paraz.” פרז _pārāz_, “leader,” or inhabitant of the plain or open country. 10. ככר _kı̂kar_, “circle, border, vale, cake, talent;” related: “bow, bend, go round, dance.” ירדן _yardēn_, Jardan, “descending.” Usually with the article in prose. צער _tso‛ar_, Tso‘ar, “smallness.” 18. ממרא _mamrē'_, Mamre, “fat, strong, ruler.” חברון _chebrôn_, Chebron, “conjunction, confederacy.” Lot has been hitherto kept in association with Abram by the ties of kinma

EXPOSITION GENESIS 13:1 AND ABRAM WENT UP OUT OF EGYPT, HE AND HIS WIFE. A special mercy that either of them returned, considering the sin they had committed and the peril in which they had been placed. AND ALL THAT HE HAD. Referring principally to the souls, "domestiei" (Poole), acquired in Haran (Genesis 12:5, Genesis 12:16), his material wealth being mentioned afterwards. AND LOT (who does not appear in the preceding paragraph, no part of which relates to him, but is now reintroduced into the narrative, the present portion of the story being connected with his fortunes) WITH HIM INTO THE SOUTH (sc. of

AND ABRAM WENT UP OUT OF EGYPT,.... That country lying low, and so more easy to be watered by the river Nile, as it was, and Canaan being higher; whither he went, but not till the famine in Canaan ceased: he went out of Egypt, as the Jewish p chronologers say, after he had been there three months; but Artapanus q an Heathen writer, says, he stayed there twenty years: HE AND HIS WIFE, AND ALL THAT HE HAD; servants and cattle: AND LOT WITH HIM: from whence it is clear that he went down with him into Egypt, and it is highly probable had great respect and favour shown him on account of his relation to Abram and Sarai; for it appears by what follows, that he was become very rich: and they all went up INTO THE SOUTH; into the southern part of the land of Canaan, for otherwise they came to the north; for as Egypt lay south with respect to Canaan, Canaan was north from Egypt; but they journey...

CHAPTER 13 THE RETURN FROM EGYPT AND SEPARATION FROM LOT _ 1. Back to Bethel (Genesis 13:1)_ 2. The strife (Genesis 13:5) 3. The separation. Lot in Sodom (Genesis 13:8) 4. The third communication of Jehovah (Genesis 13:14) Abram is graciously brought back. Abram could not have remained in Egypt forever. So the believer who has wandered away from the Lord will be restored. How precious the altar at Bethel must have been to him. Dispensationally Abram's going down to Egypt foreshadows the going down of his posterity. Lot's character is brought out in his selfish choice. He had not so much fol

GENESIS 13. THE SEPARATION OF ABRAHAM AND LOT. In the main from J, as is shown by the frequent mention of Yahweh, the reference to the garden of Yahweh, the preparation for the story of Sodom's overthrow in the mention of its exceeding sinfulness, and the phraseology. But Genesis 13:11 _b_ - Genesis 13:12_ a_ (and they. the Plain) belongs to P, which characteristically avoids all explanation of the separation as due to strife; it was occasioned rather by their abounding wealth. Wellhausen regards Genesis 13:14 as an insertion on the ground that J does not represent Yahweh as speaking to Abraham except in a theophany (but cf....

LOT'S CHOICE. -- Genesis 13:1-13. GOLDEN TEXT. --_ Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness._ -- Matthew 6:33. TIME. --About B.&nbp;C. 1917. PLACE. --Southeastern Palestine. HELPFUL READINGS. -- Genesis 12:10-20; Genesis 14:1-12; Genesis 19:12-28; Luke 17:28-32; 2 Peter 2:4-11. LESSON ANALYS