The settling of the Promise Land contains specific outcomes of the Lord’s promises to Abram made over four centuries earlier: “‘To your descendants I will give this land.’ And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him” (Gen. 12:7). Disguised as mundane details, this real estate is proof of outlandish grace and an example for the Lord’s people to take dominion over the earth. We learn to imitate the faith and avoid the folly of Israel as we focus on 15:13-19, 16:1-5, 17:3-6, 17:14-18:3, and 19:49-51.