Parallel Verses English Standard Version And Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents, King James Bible And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. American Standard Version And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. Douay-Rheims Bible But Lot also, who was with Abram, had flocks of sheep, and herds of beasts, and tents. English Revised Version And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. Webster's Bible Translation And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. Genesis 13:5 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentThe princes of Pharaoh finding her very beautiful, extolled her beauty to the king, and she was taken to Pharaoh's house. As Sarah was then 65 years old (cf. Genesis 17:17 and Genesis 12:4), her beauty at such an age has been made a difficulty by some. But as she lived to the age of 127 (Genesis 23:1), she was then middle-aged; and as her vigour and bloom had not been tried by bearing children, she might easily appear very beautiful in the eyes of the Egyptians, whose wives, according to both ancient and modern testimony, were generally ugly, and faded early. Pharaoh (the Egyptian ouro, king, with the article Pi) is the Hebrew name for all the Egyptian kings in the Old Testament; their proper names being only occasionally mentioned, as, for example, Necho in 2 Kings 23:29, or Hophra in Jeremiah 44:30. For Sarai's sake Pharaoh treated Abram well, presenting him with cattle and slaves, possessions which constitute the wealth of nomads. These presents Abram could not refuse, though by accepting them he increased his sin. God then interfered (Genesis 12:17), and smote Pharaoh and his house with great plagues. What the nature of these plagues was, cannot be determined; they were certainly of such a kind, however, that whilst Sarah was preserved by them from dishonour, Pharaoh saw at once that they were sent as punishment by the Deity on account of his relation to Sarai; he may also have learned, on inquiry from Sarai herself, that she was Abram's wife. He gave her back to him, therefore, with a reproof for his untruthfulness, and told him to depart, appointing men to conduct him out of the land together with his wife and all his possessions. שׁלּה, to dismiss, to give an escort (Genesis 18:16; Genesis 31:27), does not necessarily denote an involuntary dismissal here. For as Pharaoh had discovered in the plague the wrath of the God of Abraham, he did not venture to treat him harshly, but rather sought to mitigate the anger of his God, by the safe-conduct which he granted him on his departure. But Abram was not justified by this result, as was very apparent from the fact, that he was mute under Pharaoh's reproofs, and did not venture to utter a single word in vindication of his conduct, as he did in the similar circumstances described in Genesis 10:11-12. The saving mercy of God had so humbled him, that he silently acknowledged his guilt in concealing his relation to Sarah from the Egyptian king. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge tents. Cross References Genesis 12:5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, Genesis 13:6 so that the land could not support both of them dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together, Jump to Previous Abram Flocks Herds Lot Moving Oxen Sheep TentsJump to Next Abram Flocks Herds Lot Moving Oxen Sheep TentsLinks Genesis 13:5 NIVGenesis 13:5 NLT Genesis 13:5 ESV Genesis 13:5 NASB Genesis 13:5 KJV Genesis 13:5 Bible Apps Genesis 13:5 Biblia Paralela Genesis 13:5 Chinese Bible Genesis 13:5 French Bible Genesis 13:5 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |