Genesis Chapter 13 - Abram and Lot Separate Choosing Faith Over Sight | Genesis Bible Study
Genesis 13 follows Abram's return from Egypt after his failure of faith recorded in Genesis 12. Although Abram stumbled, God's covenant remained unchanged because the covenant depended upon God's faithfulness rather than Abram's perfection.
Genesis 13:1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
Genesis 13:2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
Abram leaves Egypt with:
Genesis 13:3 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;
Although Egypt had been a place of failure, God brought Abram back.
He returns to:
Genesis 13:4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
Where is the place of the altar?__________________
This is true repentance. Repentance is not merely sorrow, repentance is returning back to God. Before moving forward, believers must return to God.
Genesis 13:5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
Genesis 13:6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
Genesis 13:7 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.
What caused the conflict between the herdmen?_____________________________
Genesis 13:8 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.
What did Abram say?___________________________
Matthew 5:9_________________________________________
Romans 12:18________________________________________
Abram becomes an Old Testament picture of both teachings.
Reflection Questions
Are you fighting to protect something God already promised?
Is pride preventing peace?
Genesis 13:9 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.
What did Abram suggest they do?______________________________________
Genesis 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.
How land did Lot choose?_________________________________
Lot's name is translated__________________________
Zoar is translated_____________________
When people lift up their eyes, they are looking in one of two places: Can you name them?
--------------------------- and ____________________________
Lot's name is translated?_________________
Lot was looking by_____________, and not by ___________
What did he see:
Genesis 13:11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Genesis 13:12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
Each of them separated into their own place:
Abram went to____________
Lot went to_______________
Genesis 13:13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Where did lot pitch his tent?____________________
What were the people like? _________________________
Reflection Questions
Are you fighting to protect something God already promised?
Is pride preventing peace?
Genesis 13:14 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:
What did you notice here about the LORD and Abram after he separated from Lot?
What does God tell Abram to do?
Genesis 13:15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Hebrew Word
Seed (Hebrew) = Zera, meaning = offspring, descendants, future generations
This word ultimately points toward the Messiah. Paul explains this in Galatians 3.
If this seed ultimately points to the Messiah, what can you tell me about the seed according to Genesis chapter 1:11?
Genesis 13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
In Genesis chapter 1:28, And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 13:17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
What does God command Abram to do?
Genesis 13:18 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.
Mamre is translated=________________________________________
Hebron is translated = _______________________________________
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