God gives two great promises to Abram in these chapters. First, God promises to give Abram a great inheritance of land. Secondly, and more importantly, God promises to give Abram descendants to inhabit the land. These promises were ultimately fulfilled later, after Abram's death, but at the point of their making Abram believed - and God credited him with righteousness (doing the right thing).
Nestled between these promises is the account of Abram's warfare against a consortium of kings who kidnapped his nephew, Lot. What a man Abram must have been. A man of faith, to be sure, but also a man to never back down from opposition.
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