Allied Ashteroth Ashteroth-karnaim Ash'teroth-karna'im Chedorlaomer Ched-or-lao'mer Defeated Emim Emins Emites Fourteenth Ham Karnaim Kedorlaomer Kings Kiriathaim Overcame Rephaim Reph'aim Rephaims Rephaites Shaveh Shaveh-kiriathaim Sha'veh-kiriatha'im Shaveh-kirjathaim Smite Smote Struck Subdued Zuzim Zuzims Zuzites
14:5 In the fourteenth year - After some pause and preparation, Chedorlaomer, in conjunction with his allies, set himself to reduce the revolters. [3.] The progress of the war. The four kings laid the neighbouring countries waste, and enriched themselves with the spoil of them, Ge 14:5,6,7. Upon the alarm of which, the king of Sodom and his allies went out and were routed.
14:1-12 The wars of nations make great figure in history, but we should not have had the record of this war if Abram and Lot had not been concerned. Out of covetousness, Lot had settled in fruitful, but wicked Sodom. Its inhabitants were the most ripe for vengeance of all the descendants of Canaan. The invaders were from Chaldea and Persia, then only small kingdoms. They took Lot among the rest, and his goods. Though he was righteous, and Abram's brother's son, yet he was with the rest in this trouble. Neither our own piety, nor our relation to the favourites of Heaven, will be our security when God's judgments are abroad. Many an honest man fares the worse for his wicked neighbours: it is our wisdom to separate, or at least to distinguish ourselves from them, 2Co 6:17. So near a relation of Abram should have been a companion and a disciple of Abram. If he chose to dwell in Sodom, he must thank himself if he share in Sodom's losses. When we go out of the way of our duty, we put ourselves from under God's protection, and cannot expect that the choice made by our lusts, should end to our comfort. They took Lot's goods; it is just with God to deprive us of enjoyments, by which we suffer ourselves to be deprived of the enjoyment of him.
Allied Chedorlaomer Ched-Or-Lao'mer Defeated Emim Emites Fourteenth Ham im Karnaim Kedorlaomer Kings Kiriathaim m Overcame Rephaim Reph'aim Rephaims Shaveh Side Smite Smote Struck Subdued
Allied Chedorlaomer Ched-Or-Lao'mer Defeated Emim Emites Fourteenth Ham im Karnaim Kedorlaomer Kings Kiriathaim m Overcame Rephaim Reph'aim Rephaims Shaveh Side Smite Smote Struck Subdued
