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 ... came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron - [Hebrew, _ Bª'EELONEEY_ (H436), in the oaks; Septuagint, para teen drun; Vulgate, juxta convallem; from the latter of which our translation has evidently been made.] "Mamre," a Canaanitish chief in alliance with Abram (Genesis 14:13; Genesis 14:24), "which is in Hebron," - by or near Hebron (originally Kirjath-Arba, Genesis 33:2; Joshua 21:2;...

18._And Abram removed his tent _(355) Here Moses relates that the holy man, animated by the renewed promise of Gods traversed the land with great courage as if by a look alone he could subdue it to himself. Thus we see how greatly the oracle had profited him: not that he had heard anything from the mouth of God to which he had been unaccustomed, but because he had obtained a medicine so seasonable and suitable to his present grief, that he rose with collected energy towards heaven. At length Moses records that the holy man, having, performed his circuit, returned to the oak, or valley of Mare, to dwell there. But, again, he commends his piety in raising an altar, and calling upon God. I have already frequently explained what this means: for he himself bore an altar in his heart; but seeing that the land was full of profane altars on which the Canaanites and other nations polluted the wor...

14-18 Those are best prepared for the visits of Divine grace, whose spirits are calm, and not ruffled with passion. God will abundantly make up in spiritual peace, what we lose for preserving neighbourly peace. When our relations are separated from us, yet God is not. Observe also the promises with which God now comforted and enriched Abram. Of two things he assures him; a good land, and a numerous issue to enjoy it. The prospects seen by faith are more rich and beautiful than those we see around us. God bade him walk through the land, not to think of fixing in it, but expect to be always unsettled, and walking through it to a better Canaan. He built an altar, in token of his thankfulness to God. When God meets us with gracious promises, he expects that we should attend him with humble praises. In outward difficulties, it is very profitable for the true believer to mediate on the gloriou...

Verse Genesis 13:18. _ABRAM REMOVED HIS TENT_] Continued to travel and pitch in different places, till at last he fixed his tent in the _plain_, or _by the oak, of Mamre_, see Genesis 12:6, _which is in Hebron_; i.e., the district in which Mamre was situated _was called Hebron_. Mamre was an Amorite then living, with whom Abram made a league, Genesis 14:13; and the oak probably went by his name, because he was the possessor of the ground. _Hebron_ is called _Kirjath-arba_, Genesis 23:2; but it is very likely that _Hebron_ was its primitive name, and that it had the above appellation from being the re...

- 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 13:14, GENESIS 13:15 AND THE LORD SAID—speaking probably with an articulate voice; the third occasion on which the patriarch was directly addressed by God. The narrative, however, does not affirm that there was any actual theophany—UNTO ABRAM—who could readily recognize the voice which had twice already spoken to him. AFTER THAT LOT WAS SEPARATED FROM HIM. Thus God approved that separation (Poole), and administered consolation to the troubled heart of the patriarch (Calvin), though Divine revelations are rather wont to be made to minds already quiet and sedate (Lyra). LIFT UP NOW THINE EYES. Perhaps a studied reference to the act of Lot, which Mose

THEN ABRAM REMOVED [HIS] TENT,.... From the mountain between Bethel and Hai, Genesis 13:3; AND CAME AND DWELT IN THE PLAIN OF MAMRE, or "in the oaks of Mamre" e; in a grove of oaks there, as being shady and pleasant to dwell among or under, and not through any superstitious regard to such trees and places where they grew; which has obtained since among the Heathens, and particularly among the Druids, who have their name from thence. Indeed such superstitions might take their rise from hence, being improved and abused to such purposes; and both Jerom f and Sozomen g speak of the oak of Abram being there in the times of Constantine, and greatly resorted to, and had in great veneration; and they and others make mention of a turpentine tree, which it is pretended sprung from a walking stick of one of the angels that appeared to Abram at this place, greatly regarded in a superst

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....

PLAIN. among the oaks belonging to Mamre, brother of Eshcol and Aner (Genesis 14:13)....