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1 Abramo dunque risalì dall’Egitto con sua moglie, con tutto quel che possedeva e con Lot, andando verso il mezzogiorno di Canaan.

2 Abramo era molto ricco di bestiame, d’argento e d’oro.

3 E continuò il suo viaggio dal mezzogiorno fino a Bethel, al luogo ove da principio era stata la sua tenda, fra Bethel ed Ai,

4 al luogo dov’era l’altare ch’egli avea fatto da prima; e quivi Abramo invocò il nome dell’Eterno.

5 Or Lot, che viaggiava con Abramo, aveva anch’egli pecore, buoi e tende.

6 E il paese non era sufficiente perch’essi potessero abitarvi assieme; poiché le loro facoltà erano grandi ed essi non potevano stare assieme.

7 E nacque una contesa fra i pastori del bestiame d’Abramo e i pastori del bestiame di Lot. I Cananei e i Ferezei abitavano a quel tempo nel paese.

8 E Abramo disse a Lot: "Deh, non ci sia contesa fra me e te, né fra i miei pastori e i tuoi pastori, poiché siam fratelli!

9 Tutto il paese non sta esso davanti a te? Deh, separati da me! Se tu vai a sinistra, io andrò a destra; e se tu vai a destra, io andrò a sinistra".

10 E Lot alzò gli occhi e vide l’intera pianura del Giordano. Prima che l’Eterno avesse distrutto Sodoma e Gomorra, essa era tutta quanta irrigata fino a Tsoar, come il giardino dell’Eterno, come il paese d’Egitto.

11 E Lot si scelse tutta la pianura del Giordano, e partì andando verso oriente. Così si separarono l’uno dall’altro.

12 Abramo dimorò nel paese di Canaan, e Lot abitò nelle città della pianura e andò piantando le sue tende fino a Sodoma.

13 Ora la gente di Sodoma era scellerata e oltremodo peccatrice contro l’Eterno.

14 E l’Eterno disse ad Abramo, dopo che Lot si fu separato da lui: "Alza ora gli occhi tuoi e mira, dal luogo dove sei, a settentrione, a mezzogiorno, a oriente, a occidente.

15 Tutto il paese che vedi, lo darò a te e alla tua progenie, in perpetuo.

16 E farò si che la tua progenie sarà come la polvere della terra; in guisa che, se alcuno può contare la polvere della terra, anche la tua progenie si potrà contare.

17 Lèvati, percorri il paese quant’è lungo e quant’è largo, poiché io te lo darò".

18 Allora Abramo levò le sue tende, e venne ad abitare alle querce di Mamre, che sono a Hebron; e quivi edificò un altare all’Eterno.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#2909

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2909. 'In Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron in the land of Canaan' means within the Church. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'Kiriath Arba' as the Church as regards truth, and from the meaning of 'Hebron in the land of Canaan' as the Church as regards good. In the Word, especially the prophetical part, whenever truth is the subject, good also is included, on account of the heavenly marriage that exists in every detail of the Word, see 683, 793, 801, 2173, 2516, 2712. Here therefore when Kiriath Arba is mentioned, so also is 'Hebron in the land of Canaan'. The land of Canaan is the Lord's kingdom, 1413, 1437, 1607, and locations in that land were in varying ways representative, 1585, 1866.

[2] As regards 'Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron', this was a region where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob dwelt. Abraham's dwelling there is evident from what has gone before,

Abraham came and dwelt in [the oak-groves of] Mamre, which are in Hebron. Genesis 13:18.

And Isaac and Jacob's dwelling there too is evident from what comes further on, Jacob came to Isaac his father in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned. Genesis 35:27.

Joseph was sent by Jacob his father to his brothers, from the Valley of Hebron. Genesis 37:14.

From the representation dealt with already of those three personages it is clear that 'Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron' represented the Church before Jerusalem did so.

[3] In the course of time every Church deteriorates until it ceases to possess any faith or charity at all, at which point it is destroyed. This too was represented by 'Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron', that is to say, when this place was occupied by the Anakim, by whom dreadful false persuasions were meant, 581, 1673, regarding which occupation by the Anakim, see Numbers 13:21-22; Joshua 11:21; 14:15; 15:13-14; Judges 1:10. As regards the end or close of the Church and its destruction, this was represented by Joshua's utterly destroying everything in that place, Joshua 10:36-37; 11:21, and by Judah and Caleb's smiting the Anakim, Judges 1:10; Joshua 14:13-15; 15:13-14. The establishment again of a new Church was represented by the allotment of its fields and villages to Caleb as his inheritance, Joshua 21:12. The city itself however became a city of refuge, Joshua 20:7; 21:13, and a city for priests, for the sons of Aaron, Joshua 21:10-11, within the inheritance of Judah, Joshua 15:54.

[4] From this it is evident that Hebron represented the Lord's spiritual Church in the land of Canaan. For the same reason also David was ordered by Jehovah's command to go to Hebron and was there anointed king over the house of Judah; and after he had reigned there for seven years and six months he went to Jerusalem and took possession of Zion, see 2 Samuel 2:1-11; 5:5; 1 Kings 2:11, at which point the Lord's spiritual Church now began to be represented by Jerusalem, and His celestial Church by Zion.

  
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