Genesis 13:18
And Abram spread (his tent), and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre which is near Hebron, and builded there an altar before the Lord.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
17Arise, go through the land, in its length and in its breadth; for unto thee will I give it.
Cross References
Genesis 8:20And Noach builded an altar before the Lord, and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird, and uplifted an offering upon the altar.
Genesis 13:4To the place of the altar which he had there made at the first: and Abram prayed there in the Name of the Lord.
Genesis 18:1And the Lord was revealed to him in the Vale of Mamre; and he sat in the door of the tent while the day was hot.
Genesis 35:27And Jakob came unto Izhak his father, unto Mamre, the city of Arba, which is Hebron; for Abraham and Izhak had dwelt there.
Numbers 13:22And they went up by the south, and came to Hebron; and there were Achiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, sons of the giants; (and Hebron was built seven years before Tanis of Mizraim.)
Matthew Henry on Genesis 13:15-18
God Confirms His Promise to Abram. ( b. c. 1917.) 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: 15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. 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. 17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of… Read the whole commentary →