When similar words come out while reading the Bible  …

Abram and his nephew Lot could not live together in Canaan, the Promised Land.

The reason was because their possessions were so great (Gen. 13: 6).

So Lot left Canaan (vv. 9-11).

Jacob and Esau could not live together in Canaan, the Promised Land. 

The reason was because their property had become too great for them to live together,

and the land where they sojourned could not sustain them because of their livestock” (36:7).

So Esau left the land of Canaan (v. 6).

As we read the Bible, similar words come out.

I think it is necessary to meditate those similar words together.

When I meditated on those two words above,

I thought about this question: ‘Why did Lot and Esau left the land of Canaan

And Abram and Jacob stayed in the land of Canaan?’

When I did so, Genesis chapter 12 came into my mind.

The land of Canaan was the land which God show to Abram (12:1).

And the land of Canaan is the land that God promised to give to the descendants of Abram (v. 7).

That was why God placed Abram

with whom He made covenant and his descendant Jacob in the land of Canaan.

And I think God blessed Lot and Esau abundantly and made them to leave the land of Canaan.

When I apply these words to ourselves,

I believe that God has saved us, His chosen and covenant people, through Jesus Christ,

In order to place us in the true Promised Land, the new heaven and new earth, new Jerusalem.