Wesley Corpus

I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth - That is, they shall increase incredibly, and take them altogether; they shall be such a great multitude as no man can number. They were so in Solomon's time, 1Kings 4:20. Judah and Israel were many as the land which is by the sea in multitude. This God here gives him the promise of. Arise, walk through the land - Enter and take possession, survey the parcels, and it will appear better than upon a distant prospect. Then Abram removed his tent - God bid him walk through the land, that is, Do not think of fixing in it, but expect to be always unsettled, and walking through it to a better Canaan; in compliance with God's will herein, he removed his tent, conforming himself to the condition of a pilgrim. And he built there an altar - in token of his thankfulness to God for the kind visit he had made him. Chapter XIV We have in this chapter, A war with the king of Sodom and his allies, ver. 1 - 12. Abram's rescue of Lot from captivity, ver. 13 - 16. Abram's return from that expedition, ver. 17. with an account of what passed, Between him and the king of Salem, ver. 18 - 20. Between him and the king of Sodom, ver. 21 - 24.