Abram Rescues Lot

Genesis 14

1 In the days of Amraphel king of v Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of w Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, 2 these kings made war with x Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of y Admah, Shemeber king of y Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar). 3 And all these joined forces in the Valley of Siddim ( z that is, the Salt Sea). 4 Twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled. 5 In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the a Rephaim in b Ashteroth-karnaim, the c Zuzim in Ham, the d Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim, 6 and the e Horites in their hill country of Seir as far as f El-paran on the border of the wilderness. 7 Then they turned back and came to En-mishpat (that is, g Kadesh) and defeated all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who were dwelling h in Hazazon-tamar.

8 Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out, and they joined battle in the Valley of Siddim 9 with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, four kings against five. 10 Now the Valley of Siddim was full of i bitumen pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled j to the hill country. 11 So the enemy took k all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way. 12 They also took Lot, l the son of Abram's brother, m who was dwelling in Sodom, and his possessions, and went their way.

13 Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, n who was living by the o oaks 1 of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram. 14 When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, p born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as q Dan. 15 And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus. 16 Then he brought back all the possessions, and also brought back his kinsman Lot r with his possessions, and the women and the people.

  1. Cross References
    Genesis 10:10
    The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
    Genesis 11:2
    And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
  2. Cross References
    Genesis 10:22
    The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
    Isaiah 11:11
    In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
    Acts 2:9
    Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia.
  3. Cross References
    Genesis 14:8
    Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out, and they joined battle in the Valley of Siddim
    Genesis 13:10
    And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
    Genesis 19:22
    Escape there quickly, for I can do nothing till you arrive there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
  4. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 29:23
    The whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath -
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 29:23
    The whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath -
  6. Cross References
    Numbers 34:12
    And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its limit shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land as defined by its borders all around.
    Deuteronomy 3:17
    The Arabah also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.
    Joshua 3:16
    The waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho.
  7. Cross References
    Genesis 15:20
    The Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim.
    Deuteronomy 2:11
    Like the Anakim they are also counted as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim.
    Deuteronomy 3:11
    (For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)
  8. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 1:4
    After he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei.
  9. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 2:20
    (It is also counted as a land of Rephaim. Rephaim formerly lived there - but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim -
  10. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 2:10 - 11
    ( The Emim formerly lived there, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim.
  11. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 2:12
    The Horites also lived in Seir formerly, but the people of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, as Israel did to the land of their possession, which the Lord gave to them.)
    Deuteronomy 2:22
    As he did for the people of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites before them and they dispossessed them and settled in their place even to this day.
  12. Cross References
    Genesis 21:21
    He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
    Numbers 12:16
    After that the people set out from Hazeroth, and camped in the wilderness of Paran.
    Numbers 13:3
    So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel.
  13. Cross References
    Genesis 16:14
    Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.
    Genesis 20:1
    From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
    Numbers 13:26
    And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
  14. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 20:2
    Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, "A great multitude is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the sea; and, behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar" (that is, Engedi).
  15. Cross References
    Genesis 11:3
    And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.
    Exodus 2:3
    When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.
  16. Cross References
    Genesis 19:17
    And as they brought them out, one said, "Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.
    Genesis 19:30
    Now Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.
  17. Cross References
    Genesis 14:16
    Then he brought back all the possessions, and also brought back his kinsman Lot with his possessions, and the women and the people.
    Genesis 14:21
    And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself.
  18. Cross References
    Genesis 12:5
    And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan.
  19. Cross References
    Genesis 13:12
    Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
  20. Cross References
    Genesis 13:18
    So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
  21. Cross References
    Genesis 12:6
    Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
  22. Cross References
    Genesis 15:3
    And Abram said, "Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.
    Genesis 17:12 - 13
    He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.
    Genesis 17:23
    Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.
    Genesis 17:27
    And all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
    Ecclesiastes 2:7
    I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house. I had also great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem.
  23. Cross References
    Judges 18:29
    And they named the city Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor, who was born to Israel; but the name of the city was Laish at the first.
  24. Cross References
    Genesis 14:11 - 12
    So the enemy took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way.
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