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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 13:10

‘And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the Circle of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar.’ Lot carries out his research carefully (he could not do this by literally just ‘looking up’). He travelled around and weighed up the opportunities. And as he stood in the hills and looked down over the Jordan and its surrounds and saw how well-watered and fruitful the plain was, the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 13:11

‘So Lot chose for himself all the Circle of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.’ So Lot makes his choice. He will dwell among the cities of the plain. He is prepared to leave the place that first welcomed them, to which God had led them, for what he sees as better pastures. He does not realise what his choice is going to mean. How important it is that we make our choices aright and with much prayer and thought about what matters most. read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 13:1-18

Genesis 13. The Separation of Abraham and Lot.— In the main from J, as is shown by the frequent mention of Yahweh, the reference to the garden of Yahweh, the preparation for the story of Sodom’ s overthrow in the mention of its exceeding sinfulness, and the phraseology. But Genesis 13:11 b – Genesis 13:12 a (“ and they . . . the Plain” ) belongs to P, which characteristically avoids all explanation of the separation as due to strife; it was occasioned rather by their abounding wealth.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 13:10

The plain of Jordan, a great plain so called, because there the pleasant river Jordan divided itself into divers little streams or rivulets, which having no visible outlet into the sea, by degrees, and in several places, insinuated themselves into the earth, which made it very fruitful and excellent for Lot’s purpose. But this lovely plain was afterwards transformed by Divine vengeance into a filthy lake or dead sea, Genesis 19:24. Even as the garden of the Lord; i.e. either, 1. Like that... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 13:11

Lot journeyed east; Heb. from the east, or eastward, as the Hebrew particle min is sometimes used: see Genesis 2:8; 2 Samuel 2:2, compared with 1 Chronicles 13:6. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 13:10-13

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 13:10. Jordan] The first reference to this river—the only one in the country which flows through the entire summer.—Plain of Jordan] Lit. the circle of Jordan—the environs. “He saw not, indeed, the tropical fertility and copious streams along its course. But he knew of its fame as the garden of Eden, as of the valley of the Nile. No crust of salt, no volcanic convulsions had as yet blasted its verdure, or touched the secure civilisation of the early Phœnician settlements... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 13:10-11

Genesis 13:10-11 The lesson to be gained from the history of Abraham and Lot is obviously this: that nothing but a clear apprehension of things unseen, a simple trust in God's promises, and the greatness of mind thence arising, can make us act above the world indifferent, or almost so, to its comforts, enjoyments, and friendships; or, in other words, that its goods corrupt the common run even of religious men who possess them. I. Abraham and Lot had given up this world at the word of God, but a... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 13:10-13

Genesis 13:10-13 That Lot was a good man in the ground of his character there is no reason to doubt. But good men have their besetting sins. Lot's was worldliness, and it cost him dear. I. Consider some features of the choice which Lot made. (1) Worldly advantage was the chief element in determining his place in life. The volcanic fires, slumbering beneath, made the plain of Sodom so fertile that its riches had become proverbial; and the Jordan, which has now so short a course to the Dead Sea,... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Genesis 13:8-11

DISCOURSE: 21SEPARATION OF ABRAM AND LOTGenesis 13:8-11. And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left. And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 13:1-18

Thirteenth chapter of the book of Genesis. In chapter twelve, we find that Abraham had gone down into Egypt because of the famine. And there as the result of a lack of faith and trust in God to take care of him, he had Sarai pass herself off as his sister. But God brought a plague upon the Egyptians because the Pharaoh had more or less taken her into his harem and he rebuked Abraham for the deception and ordered his men to allow Abraham to travel freely. And so now Abraham is returning from... read more