The structure of chapter 17: A Abram is 99 (1a) B The Lord appears (1ba) C God speaks (1bb) D The first speech (1bc-2) E Abram falls on...

7 The angel of the Lord [God intervenes] found her by a spring of water [a well where men often encounter women in the OT] in the...

1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. [This is the main issue for Sarai, who is expected to be part of God’s promise of...

7 And he [God] said to him [Abram], “I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”8 But...

[The episode falls into two scenes which run in close parallel: First scene: Second scene: God’s word v 1 Promise...

[The final scene in Genesis 14 is structured chiastically: v 17 King of Sodom comes ...

8 Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out,...

[This is the only military campaign we find in Genesis and comes with a list of kings. The arrangement of the chapter falls into two...

14 The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and...

1 So Abram went up [from the Nile valley to hills] from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb. 2...