Genesis 13:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

A strife

Canaanite

General references

Mark 3:25

John 13:35

Bible References

A strife

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

And the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. And he called the name of the well Contention, because they strove with him.

And the shepherds came and drove them away. But Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

For you are yet carnal. For in that there is among you envyings and strife and divisions, are you not carnal, and do you not walk according to men?

idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, fightings, jealousies, angers, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

For where envying and strife are, there is confusion and every foul deed.

From where do wars and fightings among you come? Is it not from this, from your lusts which war in your members?

Canaanite

And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon (as you come to Gerar) to Gaza, as you go in towards Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboim, even to Lasha.

And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, unto the Oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

In the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, I have given this land to your seed, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have troubled me, to make me stink among those who live in the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. And I, being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and kill me. And I shall be destroyed, my house and I.

And I said, What you do is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

Do all things without murmurings and disputings,

Walk in wisdom toward those on the outside, redeeming the time.

so that you may walk becomingly toward those outside, and that you may lack nothing.

having your conduct honest among the nations, in that which they speak against you as evildoers, they may glorify God in a day of His visitation, seeing your good works.

General references

And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

By this all shall know that you are My disciples, if you have love toward one another.