Genesis 13:14 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 13:14

After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,

BSB

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ASV

And Jehovah 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:

KJV

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:

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him,.... The Lord appeared unto him as he had before, and with an articulate voice spoke unto him, to comfort him upon the separation of his kinsman from him, and to renew the grant of the land of Canaan to him and his seed, and to assure him, that though Lot had chosen the most delightful and fruitful part of the country, yet it should not be an inheritance to him and his posterity, but the whole land should be Abraham's and his seed's.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The prospects of an eye of faith are much more rich and beautiful than those of an eye of sense. Those for whom the heavenly Canaan is designed in the other world have sometimes, by faith, a comfortable prospect of it in their present state; for we look at the things that are not seen, as real, though distant.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The Lord said unto Abram - It is very likely that the angel of the covenant appeared to Abram in open day, when he could take a distinct view of the length and the breadth of this good land. The revelation made Gen 15:5, was evidently made in the night; for then he was called to number the stars, which could not be seen but in the night season: here he is called on to number the dust of the earth, Gen 13:16, which could not be seen but in the day-light.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַֽיהוָ֞ה	va.Yah.weh	and Yahweh	H3068 →
אָמַ֣ר	'a.Mar	he said	H559 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
אַבְרָ֗ם	'av.Ram	Abram	H87 →
אַחֲרֵי֙	'a.cha.Rei	after	H310 →
הִפָּֽרֶד־	hi.pa.red-	separated	H6504 →
ל֣וֹט	Lot	Lot	H3876 →
מֵֽעִמּ֔וֹ	me.'i.Mo	from with <the> him	H5973 →
שָׂ֣א	sa'	lift up	H5375 →
נָ֤א	na'	please	H4994 →
עֵינֶ֙יךָ֙	'ei.Nei.kha	eyes your	H5869 →
וּרְאֵ֔ה	u.re.'Eh	and look	H7200 →
מִן־	min-	from	H4480 →
הַמָּק֖וֹם	ha.ma.Kom	the place	H4725 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	where	H834 →
אַתָּ֣ה	'a.Tah	you	H859 →
שָׁ֑ם	Sham	[are] there	H8033 →
צָפֹ֥נָה	tza.Fo.nah	north -ward	H6828 →
וָנֶ֖גְבָּה	va.Neg.bah	and south -ward	H5045 →
וָקֵ֥דְמָה	va.Ke.de.mah	and east -ward	H6924 →
וָיָֽמָּה׃	va.Ya.mah	and west -ward	H3220 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 28:14
Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through…
leads to
- Genesis 12:3
  I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
- Genesis 18:18
  Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
- Genesis 22:18
  And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
- Acts 3:25
  And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
- Genesis 26:4
  I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,
Through
Genesis 13:10
And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 34:3
  the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho (the City of Palms) all the way to Zoar.
- Isaiah 51:3
  For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness…
Through
Isaiah 49:18
Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on…
leads to
- Isaiah 54:1–3
  “Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her…

About Genesis

The Creation of Light — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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PersonPatriarchsLotAbraham's nephew — the man who walked by sight toward Sodom and was saved “so as by fire” (2 Pet 2:7–8).

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

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About Genesis