Stewardship Figured

And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

Genesis 15:2

At this point, Abraham is about as directionless as these things would have come. It is almost about like him knowing from whence those of his house had once come. Still though Abraham had moved from a place of relative strangeness which was all he had known for awhile.

And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

Genesis 15:7

I mean the Lord knew that of course, that just as his son and his sons sons after him, Jacob of all people, this man was a stranger. In fact, it was all he had known. Hence the knowing did not make him any more knowledgeable of all the places he should have of course which might have been why his wife had suggested a stranger. The Lord though is all about reminding Abraham ever so gently of his place in all this given that he had not been looking for Lot around lately nor yet occupied with the drama of keeping his nephew around in the land. My, and what a drama it was to be sure. There was Abraham of course who had to be ever so mindful of wherever he went with a guide, the circumstances would lead him, those of his house who were native, or even the Lord of a sort. When it came to going up and down but of course, Abraham had a general notion of Egypt having passed back into there then a time or a few.

But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

Genesis 15:16-21

Thusly, the Lords covenant with him to spy out the land which just now was given itself for inheritance. Ten people groups total with Abraham being somewhere in the middle. To say nothing of the land east and west which is what Lot had figured out after going into the cities. Abraham while standing so tall at this time was feeling ever so small. Well, actually he himself had chosen to lay down for awhile what and all after he had gotten himself feeling sleepy and all. It is only natural to lay down for a nap after curiosity had gotten the best of him then. Small wonder in this that he had even known where the great river had been. Probably he had seen the river of Egypt having passed through there a few times. It is even likely he himself had stood on the banks of it personally or just Sarah after he had let out that she was his lady, a sister I mean, and not as his queen. That is just what happens though when you get things mixed up of a sort between Abraham and Pharoah and who should have kept his own house but of course. You have got a man who had not went quite as far as he should perhaps in spying out all the land. Thusly there is no possible telling where all were the

Kenite

Kenizzite

Kadmonite

Hittite

Perizzite

Rephaim

Amorites

Caananite

Girgashite

and

Jebusite

Regions nor where all the people were scattered and to whom they had mattered.