GENESIS CHAPTER 13

TABLE OF CONTENTS

OBSERVATION STAGE

The purpose of the observation stage is to maintain focus on the text at hand within the normative rules of language, context and logic which limits the observer to the content offered by the book of Genesis. This will serve to avoid going on unnecessary tangents elsewhere; and more importantly, it will provide the framework for a proper and objective comparison with passages located elsewhere in Scripture.

Remember that something elsewhere may be true, but in the text at hand it may not be in view.

I) [Gen 13:1-4]:

A) ABRAM RETURNS NORTHWARD INTO CANAAN WANDERING FROM PLACE TO PLACE INSTEAD OF TRUSTING THE LORD AND SETTLING DOWN IN ONE PLACE. HE DELAYS CALLING UPON THE LORD IN SPITE OF THE LORD'S SUPERNATURAL RESCUE OF HIM IN EGYPT, UNTIL HE ARRIVES BACK AT THE ALTAR HE HAD BUILT AT BETHEL

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ABRAM CONTINUES TO MOVE THROUGH THE LAND OF CANAAN FROM SHECHEM TO A MOUNTAIN EAST OF BETHEL. THE VILLAGE OF ALI IS ON THE EAST. THIS IS WHERE HE BUILT ANOTHER ALTAR AND THEN HE CALLED ON THE NAME OF THE LORD

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II) [Gen 13:5-13]:

A) THERE WAS STRIFE BETWEEN THE HERDSMEN OF ABRAM AND LOT DUE TO LIMITED SPACE SINCE THE CANAANITES AND PERIZZITES DWELT IN THE LAND, (V. 13:7B), AND SINCE THE HERDS OF ABRAM AND LOT WERE SO GREAT. ABRAM OFFERED TO RECONCILE WITH LOT BY SEPARATING FROM HIM. HE GIVES LOT FIRST CHOICE OF WHERE TO RESETTLE, BUT DOES NOT PROTECT AND HONOR THE PROMISE OF THE LORD TO GIVE HIM THE LAND OF CANAAN

B) DUE TO CONFLICT OVER SPACE FOR THEIR HERDS, ABRAM GAVE LOT FIRST CHOICE OF WHERE TO RESETTLE - JEOPARDIZING THE LORD'S PROMISE TO GIVE ABRAM THE PROMISED LAND. THE PROMISES REMAINED INTACT BECAUSE LOT CHOSE SODOM OUTSIDE OF CANAAN WHERE THE MEN WERE EXCEEDINGLY WICKED AND SINFUL AGAINST THE LORD AND SOON TO BE DESTROYED BY THE LORD AS A RESULT

III) [Gen 13:14-18]:

A) ABRAM SEPARATED FROM LOT FULFILLING THE LORD'S COMMAND TO SEPARATE HIMSELF FROM HIS RELATIVES. THE LORD THEN REITERATED HIS PROMISE TO ABRAM AND HIS SEED, AN INDIVIDUAL PHYSICAL DESCENDANT, TO POSSESS THE PROMISED LAND FOREVER IMPLYING JUSTIFICATION UNTO ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH THIS INDIVIDUAL 'SEED'. THEN HE COMMANDED ABRAM TO WALK AND VIEW THE LAND HE WILL POSSESS. ABRAM THEN BUILT ANOTHER ALTAR TO THE LORD IN HEBRON BY THE GREAT TREES OF MAMRE

1) [Compare Gen 12:6 NKJV]:

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