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Abraham and Lot
How Abraham and Lot are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Abraham and Lot stood together.
Lot was Abram's nephew and went with him from Haran into Canaan. They parted to end the strife between their herdmen, yet when Lot was taken captive, Abram armed his servants and brought him back.
Lot his brother’s son
Genesis 12:5, King James Version
Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee
Genesis 13:8, King James Version
they separated themselves the one from the other
Genesis 13:11, King James Version
Where they cross: Genesis 14:12-16
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Genesis 12:5
5And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
Genesis 13:8
8And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
Genesis 13:11
11Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Genesis 14:12-16
12And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
13And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.
14And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
15And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
16And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
King James Version