| | Happy New Year to all!
I've realized that if I'm ever going to get through the Bible, I'll really have to pick up the pace here. So I'm going to try to be a little less verbose. I'm flirting with the idea of just reading a whole book at a time and then commenting on it, instead of going chapter by chapter. But I also don't want to lose the details. I guess we'll see how things go; for now, I'll do a couple more chapters.
Here, we see a whole lotta warring going on. Sodom and Gomorrah are defeated, and Lot is captured. Abram goes with an army to win back Lot. Abram uses the food and men of the king of Sodom to help him do this, but when the king of Lot offers him more, Abram refuses to take anything else.
Why couldn't Abram just assembled his own army and provided them with his own food? If you're rich and God is on your side, you'd think that would be possible. But instead, Abram allies with a wicked man to save Lot. The moral is, I guess, that it's okay to ally yourself with evil people to defeat a common enemy, as long as you only take food from them. Or something like that. Another one of these stories with a clear moral that we see throughout the Bible.
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