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Chapter 14 |
| 1 | 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; |
| 2 | 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 king of Bela, which is
Zoar. |
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All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is
the salt sea. |
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4 | Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the
thirteenth year they rebelled. |
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5 | And in the fourteenth year came
Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in
Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emins in Shaveh
Kiriathaim, |
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| And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which
is by the wilderness. |
| 7 | And they returned, and came to Enmishpat,
which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the
Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar. |
| 8 | 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; |
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9 | With 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. |
| 10 | And the vale of Siddim was
full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there;
and they that remained fled to the mountain. |
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11 | And they took all the
goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.
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| 12 | And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his
goods, and departed. |
| 13 | And 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.
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| 14 | And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his
trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and
pursued them unto Dan. |
| 15 | And he divided himself against them, he and
his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is
on the left hand of Damascus. |
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16 | And he brought back all the goods, and
also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the
people. |
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| And 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. |
| 18 | And
Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest
of the most high God. |
| 19 | And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be
Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: |
| 20 | And
blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand.
And he gave him tithes of all. |
| 21 | And the king of Sodom said
unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself. |
| 22 | 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, |
| 23 | That I 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:
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| 24 | Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the
men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their
portion. |
