Greater Men and Women of the Bible by James Hastings: 044. Lot

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Greater Men and Women of the Bible by James Hastings: 044. Lot

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Abraham

IV

Lot

Literature

Brooke, S. A., The Old Testament and Modern Life (1896), 55, 71, 87.

Church, R. W., Pascal and Other Sermons (1895), 144.

Deane, W. J., Abraham: His Life and Times.

Dods, M., The Book of Genesis (Expositor's Bible) (1888), 81.

Dykes, J. O., Abraham, the Friend of God (1883).

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Stanley, A. P., Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church, i. (1889) 1.

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Expositor, 1st Ser., i. (1876) 314 (S. Cox); 5th Ser., iv. 177 (R. Winterbotham).

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New World, viii. (1899) 674 (B. W. Bacon).

Lot

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, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest unto Zoar. So Lot chose him all the Plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east.- Gen_13:10-11.

The famine which had driven Abraham into Egypt having passed away, he returned to the southern part of Canaan, whence he had set out, and by easy stages reached his old encampment at Bethel. Here, preserved from danger in a foreign land, and greatly enriched in worldly wealth, he offered his thanksgiving unto the Lord, and thought for a time to have had rest. But it was not so to be. What Christ said to His followers, what is a true word to all God's servants-“In the world ye shall have tribulation”-was indeed the experience of the patriarch. We know the blessedness of affliction; Abraham was learning the lesson. The occasion was the prosperity which God had bestowed upon him. The large increase in the cattle of Abraham and his nephew necessitated a wider area of pasturage than had formerly been required. This made necessary the choice involving the separation between Abraham and Lot, which we have now to consider.