Genesis 14:14 - When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
I wonder if these were all the men trained for battle that Abram had or if he had more and just hand picked 318 of them for this fight. In any case, if these were (as it does say) all born in his household, imagine how large his household must have been!
318 people is more than a lot of churches have on their rosters.
These men had parents who were presumably part of the household too. It's maybe not likely, but what if each man had a unique set of parents? That's almost 1000 people right there! And those men were just the military division of his household. Sure, they may have done double (or more) duty since Abram wasn't often at war, but still there were probably many other (young) people in Abram's service.
Even using minimal numbers to guess at the size of his household, God had indeed made Abram an extremely wealthy man.
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