“And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.”
Abram recovers all the goods and brings back his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other people. The completeness of the recovery mirrors the completeness of the plunder in verse 11: all the goods, all the people. Abram restores what was taken. The rescue of Lot is the reason for the mission, and the restoration is total — possessions, people, freedom. Isaiah 61:1 describes the mission to proclaim freedom for captives and release for prisoners — Abram is enacting that mission in military form. The application: when you undertake a rescue — of a person, a relationship, a situation — pursue completeness. Abram did not rescue Lot and leave the goods, or take the goods and leave some of the people. The mission was to restore everything that had been taken, and he did.
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