Abram and Lot Part Ways
So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him. 2Sa 24:7Gen 12:9-20Jos 10:401Sa 27:10Gen 20:1Gen 21:33Jos 18:5 And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold. Gen 24:35Psa 112:1-3Gen 26:12-13Job 22:21-25Pro 10:22Deu 8:18Job 1:10Job 1:3
From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched, Gen 12:6Gen 12:8-9 to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD. Jer 29:12Eph 6:18-19Gen 12:7-8Isa 58:9Psa 116:2Psa 65:1-2Zep 3:91Co 1:2
Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. Gen 25:27Gen 4:20Jer 49:29 But the land was unable to support both of them while they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they were unable to coexist. Gen 36:6-71Ti 6:9Ecc 5:10-11Luk 12:17-18 And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land. Gen 26:20Gen 12:6Jas 3:161Pe 2:12Gal 5:20Gen 34:30Jas 4:11Co 3:3
So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are brothers. 1Co 6:6-7Act 7:26Psa 133:11Jn 2:9-111Jn 3:14-191Jn 4:20-211Pe 3:81Pe 4:8 Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.” 1Pe 3:8-12Gen 20:15Gen 34:10Heb 12:141Co 6:7Psa 120:7Rom 12:18Jas 3:13-18
Lot Proceeds toward Sodom
And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) Deu 34:3Isa 51:3Gen 14:8Gen 2:8-10Ezk 28:13Gen 14:2Jol 2:31Jn 2:15-16 So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company. Gen 13:91Pe 2:17Heb 10:25Pro 27:10Psa 119:63Gen 13:14Psa 16:3Gen 19:17
Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom. Gen 19:29Gen 14:12Gen 19:11Co 15:332Pe 2:7-8Gen 19:25Psa 26:5 But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD. 2Pe 2:102Pe 2:6-8Jud 1:7Isa 3:8-9Jer 23:24Rom 1:27Ezk 16:46-50Gen 18:20
God Renews the Promise to Abram
After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west, Deu 3:27Gen 28:14Isa 49:18Isa 60:4Gen 13:10 for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever. 1 2Ch 20:7Gen 12:7Gen 15:18Act 7:5Gen 35:12Psa 37:22Neh 9:7-8Psa 105:9-12
I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted. Gen 28:14Num 23:10Exo 32:13Gen 22:17Gen 32:121Ki 3:8Rom 4:16-18Gen 15:5 Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.” Gen 13:15Num 13:17-24
So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks 2of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD. Gen 14:13Gen 18:1Gen 35:27Gen 8:20Gen 12:7-8Psa 16:81Ti 2:8Gen 13:4