Genesis 13:1-18
Abram’s Solution to the Strife
13:1 So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.
13:2 (Now Abram was very wealthy in livestock, silver, and gold.)
13:3 And he journeyed from place to place from the Negev as far as Bethel. He returned to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.
13:4 This was the place where he had first built the altar, and there Abram worshiped the Lord.
13:5 Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.
13:6 But the land could not support them while they were living side by side. Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live alongside one another.
13:7 So there were quarrels between Abram’s herdsmen and Lot’s herdsmen. (Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.)
13:8 Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no quarreling between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are close relatives.
13:9 Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself now from me. If you go to the left, then I’ll go to the right, but if you go to the right, then I’ll go to the left.”
13:10 Lot looked up and saw the whole region of the Jordan. He noticed that all of it was well-watered (before the Lord obliterated Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, all the way to Zoar.
13:11 Lot chose for himself the whole region of the Jordan and traveled toward the east.
So the relatives separated from each other.
13:12 Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain and pitched his tents next to Sodom.
13:13 (Now the people of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the Lord.)
13:14 After Lot had departed, the Lord said to Abram, “Look from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west.
13:15 I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever.
13:16 And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.
13:17 Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you.”
13:18 So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the Lord there.
Genesis 13:1
Abram’s Solution to the Strife
13:1 So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.
Genesis 19:26
19:26 But Lot’s
wife looked back longingly
and was turned into a pillar of salt.
Genesis 26:28
26:28 They replied, “We could plainly see
that the
Lord is with you. So we decided there should be
a pact between us
– between us
and you. Allow us to make
a treaty with you
Genesis 28:1
28:1 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman!
Genesis 9:27
9:27 May God enlarge Japheth’s territory and numbers!
May he live in the tents of Shem
and may Canaan be his slave!”
Genesis 9:2
9:2 Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you.
Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority.
Genesis 32:11
32:11 Rescue me,
I pray, from the hand
of my brother Esau,
for I am afraid he will come
and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.
Luke 16:31
16:31 He
replied to him, ‘If they do not respond to
Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”
Luke 16:2
16:2 So
he called the manager
in and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you?
Turn in the account of your administration,
because you can no longer be my manager.’
Colossians 1:11
1:11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of
all patience and steadfastness, joyfully