Genesis 13:10-18 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 13:10-13

We have here the choice that Lot made when he parted from Abram. Upon this occasion, one would have expected, 1. That he should have expressed an unwillingness to part from Abram, and that, at least, he should have done it with reluctancy. 2. That he should have been so civil as to have remitted the choice back again to Abram. But we find not any instance of deference or respect to his uncle in the whole management. Abram having offered him the choice, without compliment he accepted it, and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 13:14-18

We have here an account of a gracious visit which God paid to Abram, to confirm the promise to him and his. Observe, I. When it was that God renewed and ratified the promise: After that Lot was separated from him, that is, 1. After the quarrel was over; for those are best prepared for the visits of divine grace whose spirits are calm and sedate, and not ruffled with any passion. 2. After Abram's humble self-denying condescensions to Lot for the preserving of peace. It was then that God came to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 13:10

And Lot lifted up his eyes ,.... He immediately fell in with Abram's proposal, but had not the ingenuity to return back the choice to Abram which he gave him, but took the advantage of it; nor did he show any uneasiness or unwillingness to part from Abram, though so near a relation, and so wise and good a man, and by whose means greatly he had obtained his riches; but without giving himself any concern about this, he at once cast about in his mind where to make his choice; he considered... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 13:11

Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan ,.... Because of its good pasturage, and because of the plenty of water there; the want of both which was the inconvenience he had laboured under, and had occasioned the strife between his and Abram's servants: and Lot journeyed east , or "eastward"; for the plain of Jordan, and that part of the land on which Sodom and Gomorrah stood, were to the east of Bethel: the phrase is by some rendered "from the east" F25 מקדם "ab Oriente", V. L.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 13:12

Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan ,.... In that part of the land strictly so called, where the family of the Canaanites had their abode; for otherwise taking Canaan in a more general sense, the plain of Jordan, and cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, were in the land of Canaan. And Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain ; in the neighbourhood of them, or near those cities, which were built on the plain of Jordan, for he could not dwell in more than one, if in one; for it looks as if at his first... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 13:13

But the men of Sodom were wicked ,.... Which either he knew not, and so ignorantly made this bad choice, to take up his abode among such very wicked men, which occasioned a great deal of grief, trouble, and vexation to him; or if he knew it, the pleasing prospect of convenience for his cattle, and of enriching himself, was a temptation to him, and prevailed upon him to take such a step; and so Jarchi interprets it, "although" they were so, Lot was not restrained from dwelling among them: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 13:14

And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him ,.... The Lord appeared unto him as he had before, and with an articulate voice spoke unto him, to comfort him upon the separation of his kinsman from him, and to renew the grant of the land of Canaan to him and his seed, and to assure him, that though Lot had chosen the most delightful and fruitful part of the country, yet it should not be an inheritance to him and his posterity, but the whole land should be Abraham's and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 13:15

For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it ,.... Not only so much of it as his eye could reach, but all of it, as far as it went, which way soever he looked; and this he gave him to sojourn in now where he pleased, and for his posterity to dwell in hereafter; he gave him the title to it now, and to them the possession of it for future times: and to thy seed for ever ; the meaning is, that he gave it to his posterity to be enjoyed by them until the Messiah came, when a new... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 13:16

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth ,.... An hyperbolical expression denoting the great multitude of Abram's posterity, as they were in the days of Solomon, and as they will be in the latter day; and especially as this may respect all the spiritual seed of Abram, Jews and Gentiles, and as they will be in the spiritual reign of Christ, see Hosea 1:10 , so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed be numbered ; but as it is impossible to do the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 13:17

Arise, walk through the land ,.... And take a survey of it, and see what a land it is, how good and how large, and take possession of it for himself and his, though he was only to be a sojourner in it; and so the Targum of Jonathan adds, and making in it a possession, which in civil law was done by walking: in the length of it, and in the breadth of it ; the extent of it is variously settled by geographers; some giving it no more than about one hundred and seventy or eighty miles in... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 13:10-13

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 13:14-18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 13:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 13:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 13:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 13:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 13:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 13:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 13:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 13:17

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