Abram left Egypt with his wife and Lot, and settled in the general vicinity of the altar he built in chapter 12. Abram was filthy rich from the stuff he took from Egypt, and he and Lot set about building their own little livestock empires. Before long, they ran into all sorts of border disputes involving their hired hands, and they decided to split up. Lot went to Jordan, which included the cities of Sodom and Gommorah (even more foreshadowing!). Abram went to Canaan.
And it came to pass that God told Abram that he and his line would have dominion over all the land he could see. Of course, given that Abram couldn’t see anything beyond the horizon, that land probably didn’t exceed 10 square miles, but the point is God was promising Abram something. As it turns out, this promise would never be in the least controversial, and would certainly never result in three major religions fighting endlessly over the same spot.
Anyway, Abram eventually got sick of Canaan and moved to Hebron. As was his habit, he built another altar to God and set up camp and hung out for a while.
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