8. Abram said Abram’s words and proposition on the occasion are most magnanimous, and every way worthy of the father of the faithful . “He walks,” says Murphy, “in the moral atmosphere of the Sermon on the Mount . Matthew 5:38-42. ” We be brethren Hebrews, Men brethren are we . Compare Acts 15:13; Acts 23:1. Their kinship and religious affinity would authorize this warm expression. read more
10. Lot… beheld all the plain of Jordan ככר , here rendered plain, means the region around, or circuit; η περιχωρος , Matthew 3:5. “At the time when Abram and Lot looked down from the mountain of Beth-el on the deep descent beneath them, and Lot chose for himself the circle of the Jordan, that circle was different from any thing that we now see . It was well watered everywhere… as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt And this description is filled out in detail by... read more
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 13:5-13
SEPARATION OF ABRAM AND LOT, 5-13. The time has come to separate Abram and his household more fully from kindred and connexions which he cannot “command.” Genesis 18:19. His father’s house in far-off Chaldea was tainted with idolatry, and he was to be removed from its power, and so Jehovah ordered him thence. But the love of kindred is strong, and Terah, his father, accompanied him as far as Haran. There he dwelt and died, and Abram resumed his journey westward. Lot, his brother’s son, still... read more