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Genesis 13:1–7 – Return and renewal

What happens: Abram returns from Egypt to the Negev and then to Bethel, back to the altar he had made. He calls on the Lord. Abram and Lot grow so wealthy that the land cannot support both herds, and strife arises.

What it means: Returning to earlier places of worship renews faith. Prosperity without wisdom breeds conflict. God invites His people to seek peace under His care.

Genesis 13:8–13 – Separation from Lot

What happens: Abram offers Lot first choice of land to end strife. Lot chooses the well-watered Jordan Valley near Sodom, which is wicked. Abram remains in Canaan.

What it means: Meekness trusts God with outcomes and yields rights for peace. Sight can mislead when it ignores moral danger. God values righteousness over short-term advantage.

Genesis 13:14–18 – Promise expanded

What happens: After Lot departs, God reaffirms and expands the promise to Abram: land in all directions and offspring like dust. Abram moves to Hebron and builds another altar.

What it means: God meets generosity with assurance. Promises grow clearer after costly choices. Worship anchors the heart while waiting for fulfillment.

Application

  • Seek peace even if it costs you the first choice.
  • Do not choose by sight alone; weigh moral and spiritual factors.
  • Revisit places of prayer to renew trust in God’s promises.
  • Let worship steady you while you wait for what God has said.

Bible

1And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.

2And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

3And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;

4Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

5And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

6And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

7And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

8And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.

9Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

11Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

12Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

13But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

14And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

15For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

16And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

17Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

18Then 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.

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