When he gave back the captives to the king of Sodom, the king offered to reward Abraham, but Abraham refused because he did not want to become indebted to an ungodly king.
When Abraham decided to designate Eliezer, his most trusted servant, as his heir since he still didn’t have a son, the Lord reassured Abraham that he would give him his own son. The Lord told Abraham to count the stars if he could, and then said, “Your descendants will be like the stars, too many to count.”
Abraham reaffirmed his trust in God’s promises by making an animal sacrifice, and the Lord himself passed between the animals in the visible form of a smoking firepot and flaming torch, assuring Abraham that God could be trusted. He promised that Abraham’s descendants would possess the land from Egypt in the south to the Euphrates River in the north. The Lord would allow the Amorites (one of the nations living in Canaan) to occupy the land for four hundred years before removing them because of their sin.
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