_AND ABRAM WENT UP OUT OF EGYPT, HE, AND HIS WIFE, AND ALL THAT HE HAD, AND LOT WITH HIM, INTO THE SOUTH._ Went up ... south. Palestine being a highland country, the entrance from Egypt by its southern boundary is a continual ascent.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABRAM WAS VERY RICH IN CATTLE, IN SILVER, AND IN GOLD._ Very rich - compared with the pastoral tribes to which Abram belonged. An Arab sheich is considered rich who has a hundred or two hundred tents, from sixty to a hundred camels, a thousand sheep and goats respectively. And Abram, being ver... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND 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;_ Went on his journeys. His progress would be by slow marches and frequent encampments, since he had to regulate his movements by the prospect of water and pas... [ Continue Reading ]
_UNTO THE PLACE OF THE ALTAR, WHICH HE HAD MADE THERE AT THE FIRST: AND THERE ABRAM CALLED ON THE NAME OF THE LORD._ There Abram called. We find the patriarch here pitching again in the same place, making use of the same altar, and performing the same sacred rites as before. He felt a strong desire... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND LOT ALSO, WHICH WENT WITH ABRAM, HAD FLOCKS, AND HERDS, AND TENTS._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND 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._ And there was a strife. Strife from similar causes frequently breaks out among the Arabs in Mesopotamia, as well as in Syria; and this is a r... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN LOT CHOSE HIM ALL THE PLAIN OF JORDAN; AND LOT JOURNEYED EAST: AND THEY SEPARATED THEMSELVES THE ONE FROM THE OTHER._ Then Lot chose him all the plain - a choice excellent in a worldly point of view, but most inexpedient for his best interests. He seems, though a good man, to have been too mu... [ Continue Reading ]
_ABRAM DWELLED IN THE LAND OF CANAAN, AND LOT DWELLED IN THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN, AND PITCHED HIS TENT TOWARD SODOM._ Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain. Lot, though a good man, was weak in the faith, and therefore too easily induced to conform to the world;... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THE MEN OF SODOM WERE WICKED AND SINNERS BEFORE THE LORD EXCEEDINGLY._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND 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:_ Lift ... thine eyes ... all the land which thou seest. So extensive a survey of the country, in all directions,... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR ALL THE LAND WHICH THOU SEEST, TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT, AND TO THY SEED FOR EVER._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN 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._ Abram ... came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron - [Hebrew, _ Bª'EELONEEY_ (H436), in the oaks; Septuagint, para teen drun; Vulgate, juxta convallem... [ Continue Reading ]