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Selected Verse: Genesis 14:1 - Strong Concordance
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Ge 14:1 |
Strong Concordance |
And it came to pass in the days [03117] of Amraphel [0569] king [04428] of Shinar [08152], Arioch [0746] king [04428] of Ellasar [0495], Chedorlaomer [03540] king [04428] of Elam [05867], and Tidal [08413] king [04428] of nations [01471]; |
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And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations; |
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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
WAR. (Gen. 14:1-24)
And it came to pass--This chapter presents Abram in the unexpected character of a warrior. The occasion was this: The king of Sodom and the kings of the adjoining cities, after having been tributaries for twelve years to the king of Elam, combined to throw off his yoke. To chastise their rebellion, as he deemed it, Chedorlaomer, with the aid of three allies, invaded the territories of the refractory princes, defeated them in a pitched battle where the nature of the ground favored his army (Gen 14:10), and hastened in triumph on his homeward march, with a large amount of captives and booty, though merely a stranger. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
The war, which furnished Abram with an opportunity, while in the promised land of which as yet he could not really call a single rood his own, to prove himself a valiant warrior, and not only to smite the existing chiefs of the imperial power of Asia, but to bring back to the kings of Canaan the booty that had been carried off, is circumstantially described, not so much in the interests of secular history as on account of its significance in relation to the kingdom of God. It is of importance, however, as a simple historical fact, to see that in the statement in Gen 14:1, the king of Shinar occupies the first place, although the king of Edom, Chedorlaomer, not only took the lead in the expedition, and had allied himself for that purpose with the other kings, but had previously subjugated the cities of the valley of Siddim, and therefore had extended his dominion very widely over hither Asia. If, notwithstanding this, the time of the war related here is connected with "the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar," this is done, no doubt, with reference to the fact that the first worldly kingdom was founded in Shinar by Nimrod (Gen 10:10), a kingdom which still existed under Amraphel, though it was now confined to Shinar itself, whilst Elam possessed the supremacy in inner Asia. There is no ground whatever for regarding the four kings mentioned in Gen 14:1 as four Assyrian generally or viceroys, as Josephus has done in direct contradiction to the biblical text; for, according to the more careful historical researches, the commencement of the Assyrian kingdom belongs to a later period; and Berosus speaks of an earlier Median rule in Babylon, which reaches as far back as the age of the patriarchs (cf. M. v. Niebuhr, Gesch. Assurs, p. 271). It appears significant also, that the imperial power of Asia had already extended as far as Canaan, and had subdued the valley of the Jordan, no doubt with the intention of holding the Jordan valley as the high-road to Egypt. We have here a prelude of the future assault of the worldly power upon the kingdom of God established in Canaan; and the importance of this event to sacred history consists in the fact, that the kings of the valley of the Jordan and the surrounding country submitted to the worldly power, whilst Abram, on the contrary, with his home-born servants, smote the conquerors and rescued their booty, - a prophetic sign that in the conflict with the power of the world the seed of Abram would not only not be subdued, but would be able to rescue from destruction those who appealed to it for aid.
Gen 14:1-2
In Gen 14:1-3 the account is introduced by a list of the parties engaged in war. The kings named here are not mentioned again. On Shinar, see Gen 10:10; and on Elam, Gen 10:22. It cannot be determined with certainty where Ellasar was. Knobel supposes it to be Artemita, which was also called Χαλάσαρ, in southern Assyria, to the north of Babylon. Goyim is not used here for nations generally, but is the name of one particular nation or country. In Delitzsch's opinion it is an older name for Galilee, though probably with different boundaries (cf. Jos 12:23; Jdg 4:2; and Isa 9:1). - The verb עשׂוּ (made), in Gen 14:2, is governed by the kings mentioned in Gen 14:1. To Bela, whose king is not mentioned by name, the later name Zoar (vid., Gen 19:22) is added as being better known.
Gen 14:3
"All these (five kings) allied themselves together, (and came with their forces) into the vale of Siddim (השׂדּים, prob. fields of plains), which is the Salt Sea;" that is to say, which was changed into the Salt Sea on the destruction of its cities (Gen 19:24-25). That there should be five kings in the five cities (πεντάπολις, Wis. 10:6) of this valley, was quite in harmony with the condition of Canaan, where even at a later period every city had its king.
Gen 14:4-6
The occasion of the war was the revolt of the kings of the vale of Siddim from Chedorlaomer. They had been subject to him for twelve years, "and the thirteenth year they rebelled." In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came with his allies to punish them for their rebellion, and attacked on his way several other cities to the east of the Arabah, as far as the Elanitic Gulf, no doubt because they also had withdrawn from his dominion. The army moved along the great military road from inner Asia, past Damascus, through Peraea, where they smote the Rephaims, Zuzims, Emims, and Horites. "The Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim:" all that is known with certainty of the Rephaim is, that they were a tribe of gigantic stature, and in the time of Abram had spread over the whole of Peraea, and held not only Bashan, but the country afterwards possessed by the Moabites; from which possessions they were subsequently expelled by the descendants of Lot and the Amorites, and so nearly exterminated, that Og, king of Bashan, is described as the remnant of the Rephaim (Deu 2:20; Deu 3:11, Deu 3:13; Jos 12:4; Jos 13:12). Beside this, there were Rephaim on this side of the Jordan among the Canaanitish tribes (Gen 15:20), some to the west of Jerusalem, in the valley which was called after them the valley of the Rephaim (Jos 15:8; Jos 18:16; Sa2 5:18, etc.), others on the mountains of Ephraim (Jos 17:15); while the last remains of them were also to be found among the Philistines (Sa2 21:16.; Ch1 20:4.). The current explanation of the name, viz., "the long-stretched," or giants (Ewald), does not prevent our regarding רפא as the personal name of their forefather, though no intimation is given of their origin. That they were not Canaanites may be inferred from the fact, that on the eastern side of the Jordan they were subjugated and exterminated by the Canaanitish branch of the Amorites. Notwithstanding this, they may have been descendants of Ham, though the fact that the Canaanites spoke a Semitic tongue rather favours the conclusion that the oldest population of Canaan, and therefore the Rephaim, were of Semitic descent. At any rate, the opinion of J. G. Mller, that they belonged to the aborigines, who were not related to Shem, Ham, and Japhet, is perfectly arbitrary. - Ashteroth Karnaim, or briefly Ashtaroth, the capital afterwards of Og of Bashan, was situated in Hauran; and ruins of it are said to be still seen in Tell Ashtereh, two hours and a half from Nowah, and one and three-quarters from the ancient Edrei, somewhere between Nowah and Mezareib (see Ritter, Erdkunde).
(Note: J. G. Wetztein, however, has lately denied the identity of Ashteroth Karnaim, which he interprets as meaning Ashtaroth near Karnaim, with Ashtaroth the capital of Og (see Reiseber. b. Hauran, etc. 1860, p. 107). But he does so without sufficient reason. He disputes most strongly the fact that Ashtaroth was situated on the hill Ashtere, because the Arabs now in Hauran assured him, that the ruins of this Tell (or hill) suggested rather a monastery or watch-tower than a large city, and associates it with the Bostra of the Greeks and Romans, the modern Bozra, partly on account of the central situation of this town, and its consequent importance to Hauran and Peraea generally, and partly also on account of the similarity in the name, as Bostra is the latinized form of Beeshterah, which we find in Jos 21:27 in the place of the Ashtaroth of Ch1 6:56; and that form is composed of Beth Ashtaroth, to which there are as many analogies as there are instances of the omission of Beth before the names of towns, which is a sufficient explanation of Ashtaroth (cf. Ges. thes., p. 175 and 193).)
"The Zuzims in Ham" were probably the people whom the Ammonites called Zam zummim, and who were also reckoned among the Rephaim (Deu 2:20). Ham was possibly the ancient name of Rabba of the Ammonites (Deu 3:11), the remains being still preserved in the ruins of Ammn. - "The Emim in the plain of Kiryathaim:" the אימים or אמים (i.e., fearful, terrible), were the earlier inhabitants of the country of the Moabites, who gave them the name; and, like the Anakim, they were also reckoned among the Rephaim (Deu 2:11). Kiryathaim is certainly not to be found where Eusebius and Jerome supposed, viz., in Καριάδα, Coraiatha, the modern Koerriath or Kereyat, ten miles to the west of Medabah; for this is not situated in the plain, and corresponds to Kerioth (Jer 48:24), with which Eusebius and Jerome have confounded Kiryathaim. It is probably still to be seen in the ruins of el Teym or et Tueme, about a mile to the west of Medabah. "The Horites (from חרי, dwellers in caves), in the mountains of Seir," were the earlier inhabitants of the land between the Dead Sea and the Elanitic Gulf, who were conquered and exterminated by the Edomites (Gen 36:20.). - "To El-paran, which is by the wilderness:" i.e., on the eastern side of the desert of Paran (see Gen 21:21), probably the same as Elath (Deu 2:8) or Eloth (Kg1 9:26), the important harbour of Aila on the northern extremity of the so-called Elanitic Gulf, near the modern fortress of Akaba, where extensive heaps of rubbish show the site of the former town, which received its name El or Elath (terebinth, or rather wood) probably from the palm-groves in the vicinity.
Gen 14:7
From Aila the conquerors turned round, and marched (not through the Arabah, but on the desert plateau which they ascended from Aila) to En-mishpat (well of judgment), the older name of Kadesh, the situation of which, indeed, cannot be proved with certainty, but which is most probably to be sought for in the neighbourhood of the spring Ain Kades, discovered by Rowland, to the south of Bir Seba and Khalasa (Elusa), twelve miles E.S.E. of Moyle, the halting-place for caravans, near Hagar's well (Gen 16:14), on the heights of Jebel Halal (see Ritter, Erdkunde, and Num 13). "And they smote all the country of the Amalekites," i.e., the country afterwards possessed by the Amalekites (vid., Gen 26:12),
(Note: The circumstance that in the midst of a list of tribes who were defeated, we find not the tribe but only the fields (שׂדה) of the Amalekites mentioned, can only be explained on the supposition that the nation of the Amalekites was not then in existence, and the country was designated proleptically by the name of its future and well-known inhabitants (Hengstenberg, Diss. ii. p. 249, translation).)
to the west of Edomitis on the southern border of the mountains of Judah (Num 13:29), "and also the Amorites, who dwelt in Hazazon-Thamar," i.e., Engedi, on the western side of the Dead Sea (Ch2 20:2).
Gen 14:8-12
After conquering all these tribes to the east and west of the Arabah, they gave battle to the kings of the Pentapolis in the vale of Siddim, and put them to flight. The kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fell there, the valley being full of asphalt-pits, and the ground therefore unfavourable for flight; but the others escaped to the mountains (הרה for ההרה), that is, to the Moabitish highlands with their numerous defiles. The conquerors thereupon plundered the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and carried off Lot, who dwelt in Sodom, and all his possessions, along with the rest of the captives, probably taking the route through the valley of the Jordan up to Damascus. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
We have here an account of the first war that ever we read of in scripture, in which we may observe. [1.] The parties engaged in it. The invaders were four kings; two of them no less than kings of Shinar and Elam - That is, Chaldea and Persia; yet probably not the sovereign princes of those great kingdoms, but rather the heads of some colonies which came out thence, and settled themselves near Sodom, but retained the names of the countries from which they had their original. The invaded were the kings of five cities that lay near together in the plain of Jordan, Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Zoar. [2.] The occasion of this war was, the revolt of the five kings from under the government of Chedorlaomer. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
In the days of Amraphel - Who this king was is not known; and yet, from the manner in which he is spoken of in the text, it would seem that he was a person well known, even when Moses wrote this account. But the Vulgate gives a different turn to the place, by rendering the passage thus: Factum est in illo tempore, ut Amraphel, etc. "It came to pass in that time that Amraphel, etc." The Chaldee Targum of Onkelos makes Amraphel king of Babylon, others make him king of Assyria; some make him the same as Nimrod, and others, one of his descendants.
Arioch king of Ellasar - Some think Syria is meant; but conjecture is endless where facts cannot be ascertained. Chedorlaomer king of Elam - Dr. Shuckford thinks that this was the same as Ninyas, the son of Ninus and Semiramis; and some think him to be the same with Keeumras, son of Doolaved, son of Arphaxad, son of Shem, son of Noah; and that Elam means Persia; see Gen 10:22. The Persian historians unanimously allow that Keeumras, whose name bears some affinity to Chedorlaomer, was the first king of the Peeshdadian dynasty.
Tidal king of nations - גוים goyim, different peoples or clans. Probably some adventurous person, whose subjects were composed of refugees from different countries. |
10 And the vale [06010] of Siddim [07708] was full of [0875] slimepits [0875] [02564]; and the kings [04428] of Sodom [05467] and Gomorrah [06017] fled [05127], and fell [05307] there; and they that remained [07604] fled [05127] to the mountain [02022].
8 And there went out [03318] the king [04428] of Sodom [05467], and the king [04428] of Gomorrah [06017], and the king [04428] of Admah [0126], and the king [04428] of Zeboiim [06636], and the king [04428] of Bela [01106] (the same [01931] is Zoar [06820];) and they joined [06186] battle [04421] with them in the vale [06010] of Siddim [07708];
9 With Chedorlaomer [03540] the king [04428] of Elam [05867], and with Tidal [08413] king [04428] of nations [01471], and Amraphel [0569] king [04428] of Shinar [08152], and Arioch [0746] king [04428] of Ellasar [0495]; four [0702] kings [04428] with five [02568].
10 And the vale [06010] of Siddim [07708] was full of [0875] slimepits [0875] [02564]; and the kings [04428] of Sodom [05467] and Gomorrah [06017] fled [05127], and fell [05307] there; and they that remained [07604] fled [05127] to the mountain [02022].
11 And they took [03947] all the goods [07399] of Sodom [05467] and Gomorrah [06017], and all their victuals [0400], and went their way [03212].
12 And they took [03947] Lot [03876], Abram's [087] brother's [0251] son [01121], who dwelt [03427] in Sodom [05467], and his goods [07399], and departed [03212].
2 Then there came [0935] some that told [05046] Jehoshaphat [03092], saying [0559], There cometh [0935] a great [07227] multitude [01995] against thee from beyond [05676] the sea [03220] on this side Syria [0758]; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar [02688], which is Engedi [05872].
29 The Amalekites [06002] dwell [03427] in the land [0776] of the south [05045]: and the Hittites [02850], and the Jebusites [02983], and the Amorites [0567], dwell [03427] in the mountains [02022]: and the Canaanites [03669] dwell [03427] by the sea [03220], and by the coast [03027] of Jordan [03383].
12 Then Isaac [03327] sowed [02232] in that land [0776], and received [04672] in the same year [08141] an hundredfold [03967] [08180]: and the LORD [03068] blessed [01288] him.
14 Wherefore the well [0875] was called [07121] Beerlahairoi [0883] [02416]; behold, it is between Kadesh [06946] and Bered [01260].
7 And they returned [07725], and came [0935] to [0413] Enmishpat [05880], which is Kadesh [06946], and smote [05221] all the country [07704] of the Amalekites [06003], and also the Amorites [0567], that dwelt [03427] in Hazezontamar [02688].
26 And king [04428] Solomon [08010] made [06213] a navy of ships [0590] in Eziongeber [06100], which is beside Eloth [0359], on the shore [08193] of the Red [05488] sea [03220], in the land [0776] of Edom [0123].
8 And when we passed [05674] by from our brethren [0251] the children [01121] of Esau [06215], which dwelt [03427] in Seir [08165], through the way [01870] of the plain [06160] from Elath [0359], and from Eziongaber [06100], we turned [06437] and passed [05674] by the way [01870] of the wilderness [04057] of Moab [04124].
21 And he dwelt [03427] in the wilderness [04057] of Paran [06290]: and his mother [0517] took [03947] him a wife [0802] out of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714].
20 These are the sons [01121] of Seir [08165] the Horite [02752], who inhabited [03427] the land [0776]; Lotan [03877], and Shobal [07732], and Zibeon [06649], and Anah [06034],
24 And upon Kerioth [07152], and upon Bozrah [01224], and upon all the cities [05892] of the land [0776] of Moab [04124], far [07350] or near [07138].
11 Which [01992] also were accounted [02803] giants [07497], as the Anakims [06062]; but the Moabites [04125] call [07121] them Emims [0368].
11 For only Og [05747] king [04428] of Bashan [01316] remained [07604] of the remnant [03499] of giants [07497]; behold, his bedstead [06210] was a bedstead [06210] of iron [01270]; is it not [03808] in Rabbath [07237] of the children [01121] of Ammon [05983]? nine [08672] cubits [0520] was the length [0753] thereof, and four [0702] cubits [0520] the breadth [07341] of it, after the cubit [0520] of a man [0376].
20 (That also was accounted [02803] a land [0776] of giants [07497]: giants [07497] dwelt [03427] therein in old time [06440]; and the Ammonites [05984] call [07121] them Zamzummims [02157];
56 But the fields [07704] of the city [05892], and the villages [02691] thereof, they gave [05414] to Caleb [03612] the son [01121] of Jephunneh [03312].
27 And unto the children [01121] of Gershon [01648], of the families [04940] of the Levites [03881], out of the other half [02677] tribe [04294] of Manasseh [04519] they gave Golan [01474] in Bashan [01316] with her suburbs [04054], to be a city [05892] of refuge [04733] for the slayer [07523]; and Beeshterah [01203] with her suburbs [04054]; two [08147] cities [05892].
4 And it came to pass after this [0310], that there arose [05975] war [04421] at Gezer [01507] with the Philistines [06430]; at which time [0227] Sibbechai [05444] the Hushathite [02843] slew [05221] Sippai [05598], that was of the children [03211] of the giant [07497]: and they were subdued [03665].
16 And Ishbibenob [03430], which was of the sons [03211] of the giant [07497], the weight [04948] of whose spear [07013] weighed three [07969] hundred [03967] shekels of brass [05178] in weight [04948], he being girded [02296] with a new [02319] sword, thought [0559] to have slain [05221] David [01732].
15 And Joshua [03091] answered [0559] them, If thou be a great [07227] people [05971], then get thee up [05927] to the wood [03293] country, and cut down [01254] for thyself there in the land [0776] of the Perizzites [06522] and of the giants [07497], if mount [02022] Ephraim [0669] be too narrow [0213] for thee.
18 The Philistines [06430] also came [0935] and spread [05203] themselves in the valley [06010] of Rephaim [07497].
16 And the border [01366] came down [03381] to the end [07097] of the mountain [02022] that lieth before [06440] the valley [01516] of the son [01121] of Hinnom [02011], and which is in the valley [06010] of the giants [07497] on the north [06828], and descended [03381] to the valley [01516] of Hinnom [02011], to the side [03802] of Jebusi [02983] on the south [05045], and descended [03381] to Enrogel [05883],
8 And the border [01366] went up [05927] by the valley [01516] of the son [01121] of Hinnom [02011] unto the south [05045] side [03802] of the Jebusite [02983]; the same is Jerusalem [03389]: and the border [01366] went up [05927] to the top [07218] of the mountain [02022] that lieth before [06440] the valley [01516] of Hinnom [02011] westward [03220], which is at the end [07097] of the valley [06010] of the giants [07497] northward [06828]:
20 And the Hittites [02850], and the Perizzites [06522], and the Rephaims [07497],
12 All the kingdom [04468] of Og [05747] in Bashan [01316], which reigned [04427] in Ashtaroth [06252] and in Edrei [0154], who remained [07604] of the remnant [03499] of the giants [07497]: for these did Moses [04872] smite [05221], and cast them out [03423].
4 And the coast [01366] of Og [05747] king [04428] of Bashan [01316], which was of the remnant [03499] of the giants [07497], that dwelt [03427] at Ashtaroth [06252] and at Edrei [0154],
13 And the rest [03499] of Gilead [01568], and all Bashan [01316], being the kingdom [04467] of Og [05747], gave [05414] I unto the half [02677] tribe [07626] of Manasseh [04519]; all the region [02256] of Argob [0709], with all Bashan [01316], which [01931] was called [07121] the land [0776] of giants [07497].
11 For only Og [05747] king [04428] of Bashan [01316] remained [07604] of the remnant [03499] of giants [07497]; behold, his bedstead [06210] was a bedstead [06210] of iron [01270]; is it not [03808] in Rabbath [07237] of the children [01121] of Ammon [05983]? nine [08672] cubits [0520] was the length [0753] thereof, and four [0702] cubits [0520] the breadth [07341] of it, after the cubit [0520] of a man [0376].
20 (That also was accounted [02803] a land [0776] of giants [07497]: giants [07497] dwelt [03427] therein in old time [06440]; and the Ammonites [05984] call [07121] them Zamzummims [02157];
4 Twelve [06240] [08147] years [08141] they served [05647] [0853] Chedorlaomer [03540], and in the thirteenth [07969] [06240] year [08141] they rebelled [04775].
5 And in the fourteenth [06240] [0702] year [08141] came [0935] Chedorlaomer [03540], and the kings [04428] that were with him, and smote [05221] the Rephaims [07497] in Ashteroth Karnaim [06255], and the Zuzims [02104] in Ham [01990], and the Emims [0368] in Shaveh Kiriathaim [07741],
6 And the Horites [02752] in their mount [02042] Seir [08165], unto Elparan [0364], which is by [05921] the wilderness [04057].
24 Then the LORD [03068] rained [04305] upon Sodom [05467] and upon Gomorrah [06017] brimstone [01614] and fire [0784] from the LORD [03068] out of heaven [08064];
25 And he overthrew [02015] those [0411] cities [05892], and all the plain [03603], and all the inhabitants [03427] of the cities [05892], and that which grew [06780] upon the ground [0127].
3 All these were joined together [02266] in the vale [06010] of Siddim [07708], which [01931] is the salt [04417] sea [03220].
22 Haste [04116] thee, escape [04422] thither; for I cannot [03201] do [06213] any thing [01697] till thou be come [0935] thither. Therefore the name [08034] of the city [05892] was called [07121] Zoar [06820].
1 And it came to pass in the days [03117] of Amraphel [0569] king [04428] of Shinar [08152], Arioch [0746] king [04428] of Ellasar [0495], Chedorlaomer [03540] king [04428] of Elam [05867], and Tidal [08413] king [04428] of nations [01471];
2 That these made [06213] war [04421] with [0854] Bera [01298] king [04428] of Sodom [05467], and with Birsha [01306] king [04428] of Gomorrah [06017], Shinab [08134] king [04428] of Admah [0126], and Shemeber [08038] king [04428] of Zeboiim [06636], and the king [04428] of Bela [01106], which is [01931] Zoar [06820].
1 Nevertheless the dimness [04155] shall not be such as was in her vexation [04164], when [06256] at the first [07223] he lightly afflicted [07043] the land [0776] of Zebulun [02074] and the land [0776] of Naphtali [05321], and afterward [0314] did more grievously afflict [03513] her by the way [01870] of the sea [03220], beyond [05676] Jordan [03383], in Galilee [01551] of the nations [01471].
2 And the LORD [03068] sold [04376] them into the hand [03027] of Jabin [02985] king [04428] of Canaan [03667], that reigned [04427] in Hazor [02674]; the captain [08269] of whose host [06635] was Sisera [05516], which dwelt [03427] in Harosheth [02800] of the Gentiles [01471].
23 The king [04428] of Dor [01756] in the coast [05299] of Dor [01756], one [0259]; the king [04428] of the nations [01471] of Gilgal [01537], one [0259];
22 The children [01121] of Shem [08035]; Elam [05867], and Asshur [0804], and Arphaxad [0775], and Lud [03865], and Aram [0758].
10 And the beginning [07225] of his kingdom [04467] was Babel [0894], and Erech [0751], and Accad [0390], and Calneh [03641], in the land [0776] of Shinar [08152].
1 And it came to pass in the days [03117] of Amraphel [0569] king [04428] of Shinar [08152], Arioch [0746] king [04428] of Ellasar [0495], Chedorlaomer [03540] king [04428] of Elam [05867], and Tidal [08413] king [04428] of nations [01471];
2 That these made [06213] war [04421] with [0854] Bera [01298] king [04428] of Sodom [05467], and with Birsha [01306] king [04428] of Gomorrah [06017], Shinab [08134] king [04428] of Admah [0126], and Shemeber [08038] king [04428] of Zeboiim [06636], and the king [04428] of Bela [01106], which is [01931] Zoar [06820].
3 All these were joined together [02266] in the vale [06010] of Siddim [07708], which [01931] is the salt [04417] sea [03220].
1 And it came to pass in the days [03117] of Amraphel [0569] king [04428] of Shinar [08152], Arioch [0746] king [04428] of Ellasar [0495], Chedorlaomer [03540] king [04428] of Elam [05867], and Tidal [08413] king [04428] of nations [01471];
2 That these made [06213] war [04421] with [0854] Bera [01298] king [04428] of Sodom [05467], and with Birsha [01306] king [04428] of Gomorrah [06017], Shinab [08134] king [04428] of Admah [0126], and Shemeber [08038] king [04428] of Zeboiim [06636], and the king [04428] of Bela [01106], which is [01931] Zoar [06820].
1 And it came to pass in the days [03117] of Amraphel [0569] king [04428] of Shinar [08152], Arioch [0746] king [04428] of Ellasar [0495], Chedorlaomer [03540] king [04428] of Elam [05867], and Tidal [08413] king [04428] of nations [01471];
10 And the beginning [07225] of his kingdom [04467] was Babel [0894], and Erech [0751], and Accad [0390], and Calneh [03641], in the land [0776] of Shinar [08152].
1 And it came to pass in the days [03117] of Amraphel [0569] king [04428] of Shinar [08152], Arioch [0746] king [04428] of Ellasar [0495], Chedorlaomer [03540] king [04428] of Elam [05867], and Tidal [08413] king [04428] of nations [01471];
22 The children [01121] of Shem [08035]; Elam [05867], and Asshur [0804], and Arphaxad [0775], and Lud [03865], and Aram [0758].