Category: Genesis Chapter 14
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No Deal with Sodom – Genesis 14:21-24
Genesis 14:21-24And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, That I will not take from a thread even to…
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Bread and Wine in the Valley – Genesis 14:18-20
Genesis 14:18-20And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand.…
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The Countermove After Victory – Genesis 14:17
Genesis 14:17And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale. Abram is coming back from a great victory. The battle is over. Lot has been rescued. The goods…
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When Love Goes to Battle – Genesis 14:13-16
Genesis 14:13-16And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram. And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own…
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Taken with the City – Genesis 14:11-12
Genesis 14:11, 12And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. Lot had been living close to Sodom for a while. Then he was living in Sodom. Now, when judgment…
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Slime Pits and Slippery Men – Genesis 14:8-10
Genesis 14:8-10 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim; With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king…
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Rolling Through the Nations – Genesis 14:5-7
Genesis 14:5-7 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim, And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness. And they returned, and came to En-mishpat,…
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Government and Rebellion – Genesis 14:3-4
Genesis 14:3, 4 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer… … and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. The vale of Siddim is identified here as the salt sea, what we know as the Dead Sea in the southern part of Israel.…
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War Among Kings – Genesis 14:1-2
Genesis 14:1, 2 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; That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the…