Genesis 13:10

Gen. 13:10. "And 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." Zoar here probably is the same city which was elsewhere called Zoan, which was of the old the chief city of Egypt. (See No. 254.) The Hebrew letter, Nun, seems easily convertible into, Resch, as in Achon, Achor. Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadrezzar. Zoan was probably at this time the most famous and the royal city of Egypt. It stood in the Delta of Egypt, or that part of it that was near the sea, through which the river Nile ran in many branches, so that it was well watered everywhere, as the land about Sodom is here said to be; for "it had not only the river Jordan running through it, but the river Arnon from the east, the brook Zered (Numbers 21:12) and the famous fountain Callirhoe (Pliny, lib. 5. c. 16.) from the south, falling into it." (Complete Body of Divinity, p. 350.) Probably this fountain is the same with the well, which the princes of Israel digged with their staves, Numbers 21:16; Numbers 21:17; Numbers 21:18. And probably being a low flat country, which is sometimes called a plain, sometimes a valley, Genesis 14:10, was in the time of the swelling of Jordan overflowed, as Egypt was with the Nilus.

Gen. 14:5-6