The Hittites reply to Abraham: sir, listen to us. You are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb for burying your dead. The response of the Hittites — you are a mighty prince — is the recognition that Abimelech gave in Genesis 21:22: God is with you in everything you do. The covenant person living faithfully among the surrounding peoples earns a recognition that is not manufactured but observed. The application: the standing Abraham has among the Hittites was built over years of living as a mighty prince whose God was visibly with him.

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