Genesis 13:14
After Abram and Lot separated, Yahweh said to Abram, “Look around at this whole area where you are. Look north and south, look east and west.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
13You need to know that people who lived there were extremely wicked.
15I will give to you and your descendants all the land that you see; I will give it to you forever.
Cross References
Genesis 28:14Your descendants will be as numerous as the particles of dirt that are on the earth, and their territory will be very large. It will extend in all directions, to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south. And people of all people-groups on earth will receive blessings because of what happens to you and to your descendants.
Isaiah 49:18You will look around and see all of your children coming back to you. As surely as I live, they will be around you for you to show to people like [SIM] a bride shows her wedding ornaments!
Matthew Henry on Genesis 13:11-14
Lot's Removal to Sodom. ( b. c. 1917.) 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord , like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. 11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. 12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. 13… Read the whole commentary →