Genesis 13:2

_AND ABRAM WAS VERY RICH IN CATTLE, IN SILVER, AND IN GOLD._ Very rich - compared with the pastoral tribes to which Abram belonged. An Arab sheich is considered rich who has a hundred or two hundred tents, from sixty to a hundred camels, a thousand sheep and goats respectively. And Abram, being very rich, must have far exceeded that amount of pastoral property. 'Gold and silver' being rare among these people, his probably arose from the sale of his produce in Egypt....

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...

Verse Genesis 13:2. _ABRAM WAS VERY RICH_] The property of these patriarchal times did not consist in _flocks_ only, but also in _silver_ and _gold;_ and in all these respects Abram was דבד מאד _cabed meod_, exceeding rich. Josephus says that a part of this property was acquired by teaching the Egyptians arts and sciences. Thus did God fulfil his promises to him, by protecting and giving him a great profusion of temporal blessings, which were to him signs and pledges of spiritual things....

- 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 WAS VERY RICH,.... He was rich in spiritual things, in faith, and in all other graces, and was an heir of the kingdom of heaven; and in temporal things, as it sometimes is the lot of good men to be, though but rarely, at least to be exceeding rich, as Abram was; or "very heavy" r, as the word signifies, he was loaded with wealth and riches, and sometimes an abundance of riches are a burden to a man, and, instead of making him more easy, create him more trouble; and, as we may observe presently, were the occasion of much trouble to Abram and Lot. Abram's riches lay IN CATTLE, IN SILVER, AND IN GOLD; cattle are mentioned first, as being the principal part of the riches of men in those days, such as sheep and oxen, he and she asses and camels, see Genesis 12:16 and besides these he had great quantities of silver and gold: the Jews say s he coined money in his own

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....

ABRAM WAS VERY RICH. He was already. man of great substance before his sojourn in Egypt, but Genesis 12:16 seems to teach that Pharaoh had added to his wealth. The nature of his wealth is described; like that of all oriental chiefs it consisted, to. great extent, of flocks; but to these had been added, probably by sales from his herds, silver and gold. By these terms we must not understand coined money, for at this early age these precious metals were circulated by weight. When Abraham bought the cave of Macpelah he gave. certain weight of silver. "He weighed.. 400 shekels of silver, current with the merchant."-- Genesis 23:16....

SILVER, AND IN GOLD: scarce in Palestine, but plentiful in Egypt....