So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the LORD.GENESIS 13:18+Establishing the ChurchMoses takes special care to mention...  Read More

“Arise, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I will give it to you.”GENESIS 13:17+Looking ForwardYou observe that Abraham, who, according to the promise, is the lord of the land of Can...  Read More

The LORD said . . ..GENESIS 13:14+God Still SpeaksIf we Christians also realized this great gift of ours, we would truly be blessed, as Christ says in Luke 10:23-24: "Blessed are the eyes which see wh...  Read More

The LORD said to Abram...GENESIS 13:14+Sacred AccountsNow comes the third passage in which it is written: "The Lord spoke with Abraham." I have often exhorted that . . . this chief feature of the acco...  Read More

Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife between you and me . . . for we are kinsmen."GENESIS 13:8+The Purpose of Earthly LawWhat could Abram have said that was more proper and more conducive to pea...  Read More

There Abram preached the name of the Lord.GENESIS 13:4 (according to Luther's translation)+The Nature of the WordIt is not the stones, the construction, and the gorgeous silver and gold that make a ch...  Read More

And he journeyed on . . . to the place where he had made an altar at the first; and there Abram preached the name of the Lord.GENESIS 13:3-4 (according to Luther's translation)+Preaching and PrayerIn ...  Read More

Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.GENESIS 13:2+The Godly Use of WealthIt was a famous maxim, not only in the schools of the philosophers but also among the theologians: "Wha...  Read More

Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.GENESIS 13:2+God Is FaithfulHere Moses mentions for the first time that Abraham was very rich and well supplied with gold and silver. This ...  Read More

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there.GENESIS 12:10+Faith in the Face of FamineAbraham roamed about in the land, and nowhere did he find a place at which he ...  Read More

And Abram journeyed on.GENESIS 12:9+The Lord's LeadingThis is [Abraham's] third migration within the land of Canaan. So it is clear what a welcome guest he was to the people of that land. . . This exa...  Read More

Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this ...  Read More