Genesis 13:18
Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the Lord.
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17Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you."
Cross References
Genesis 8:20Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 13:4to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.
Genesis 18:1The Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
Genesis 35:27Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.
Numbers 13:22They went up by the Negev, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Joshua 15:13To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, even Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (the same is Hebron).
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 →