Through My Bible Yr 03 – March 06

Genesis 13:5 – 14:24

Through My Bible – March 06

Genesis 13:5 – 14:24 (EHV)

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Genesis 13

⁵Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents. ⁶The land was not able to support them if they lived close together, because their possessions were so great that they could not live together. ⁷There was conflict between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. (The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.) ⁸Abram said to Lot, “Please, because we are close relatives, let there be no conflict between me and you and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen. ⁹Doesn’t the whole land lie before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.”

¹⁰Lot looked up and saw the whole region around the Jordan River as you come to Zoar.^[1] (Before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, it was well watered everywhere, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt.) ¹¹So Lot chose the region around the Jordan for himself. Lot headed out toward the east, and they separated from each other. ¹²Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived among the cities of the region around the Jordan and moved his tent close to Sodom. ¹³Now the men of Sodom were extremely wicked sinners against the Lord.

¹⁴After Lot was separated from him, the Lord said to Abram, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look around from the place where you are. Look north and south, east and west, ¹⁵because all the land that you see, I will give to you and to your descendants permanently. ¹⁶I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if a man could count the dust of the earth, then your descendants could also be counted. ¹⁷Get up, walk through the length and breadth of the land, because I will give it to you.”

¹⁸Abram moved his tent and went to live by the oaks at Mamre, which are at Hebron, and built an altar there to the Lord.

The Attack on Sodom

Genesis 14

¹In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goyim^[2] ²made war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar). ³All these joined together in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea^[3]). ⁴For twelve years they served Kedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled. ⁵In the fourteenth year Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and struck the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim, ⁶and the Horites in their Mount Seir, all the way to El Paran, which is by the wilderness. ⁷They returned and came to En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh) and struck all the territory of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who lived in Hazazon Tamar. ⁸The king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out and lined up for battle in the Valley of Siddim ⁹against Kedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goyim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five. ¹⁰Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell there. ^[4]Those who survived fled to the hills. ¹¹The raiders took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and then they went on their way. ¹²Because he had been living in Sodom, they took also Lot, the son of Abram’s brother, and his possessions and went on their way.

¹³One person escaped and came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks that belonged to Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner. They were allies of Abram. ¹⁴When Abram heard that his re...