Genesis 14

And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of ^aShinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of ^bElam, and Tidal king of nations; ²That these made war with Bera king of ^cSodom, and with Birsha king of ^cGomorrah, Shinab king of ^dAdmah, and Shemeber king of ^dZeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is ^eZoar. ³All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, ^fwhich is the salt sea. ⁴Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. ⁵And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote ^gthe Rephaims ^hin Ashteroth Karnaim, and ⁱthe Zuzims in Ham, ^kand the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim, ^6land the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-^mparan, which is by the wilderness. ⁷And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt ⁿin Hazezon-tamar. ⁸And 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; ⁹with Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five. ¹⁰And the vale of Siddim was full of ^oslimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled ^pto the mountain. ¹¹And they took ^qall the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. ¹²And they took Lot, Abram’s ^rbrother’s son, ^swho dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. ¹³And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the ^tplain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: ^uand these were confederate with Abram. ¹⁴And when Abram heard that ^whis brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, ^xborn in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto ^yDan. ¹⁵And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is ^zon the left hand of Damascus. ¹⁶And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

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 ^aking’s dale. ¹⁸And ^bMelchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was ^cthe priest of ^dthe most high God. ¹⁹And he blessed him, and said, ^eBlessed be Abram of the most high God, ^fpossessor of heaven and earth: ²⁰and ^gblessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him ^htithes of all. ²¹And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself. ²²And Abram said to the king of Sodom, ⁱI have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, ²³that ^kI will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich: ²⁴save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men ^lwhich went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.

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