Genesis Chapter 14

Genesis Chapter 14
1 And in the days of Amraphel king of
Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar,
Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal
king of the nations: 2 These men 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.
3 All these joined together in the vale of
Siddim, which is the Salt Sea. 4 Twelve
year were they subject to Chedorlaomer,
but in the thirteenth year they
rebelled.
5 And in the fourteenth year came
Chedor-laomer, 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,
6 And the Horites in their mount Seir,
unto the plain of Paran, 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 dwelled in
Hazezontamar. 8 Then 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, which is
Zoar: and they joined battle with them in
the vale of Siddim:
9 To wit, with Chedor-laomer king of
Elam, and Tidal king of nations, and
Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch
king of Ellasar: four kings against five.
10 Now the vale of Siddim was full of
slime pits, and the kings of Sodom and
Gomorrah fled and fell there: and the
residue fled to the mountain. 11 Then
they took all the substance of Sodom and
Gomorrah, and their victuals and went
their way.
12 They took Lot also Abram’s brother’s
son and his substance (for he dwelt at
Sodom) and departed.
13 Then came one that had escaped, and
told Abram the Hebrew, which dwelt in
the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother
of Eshcol, and brother of Aner, which
were confederate with Abram.
14 When Abram heard that his brother
was taken, he brought forth of them that
were born and brought up in his house,
three hundred and eighteen, and pursued
them unto Dan.
15 Then he, and his servants divided
themselves against them by night, and
smote them and pursued them unto
Hobah, which is on the left side of
Damascus,
16 And he recovered all the substance,
and also brought again his brother Lot,
and his goods, and the women also and
the people.
17 After that he returned from the
slaughter of Chedor-laomer, and of the
kings that were with him, came the king
of Sodom forth to meet him in the valley
of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale.
18 And Melchi-zedek king of Salem
brought forth bread and wine: and he
was a priest of the Most High God.
19 Therefore he blessed him, saying,
Blessed art thou, Abram, of God Most
High possessor of heaven and earth,
20 And blessed be the Most High God,
which hath delivered thine enemies into
thine hand. And Abram gave him tithe of
all.
21 Then the king of Sodom said to
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 possessor of
heaven and earth,
23 That I will not take of all that is thine,
so much as a thread or shoe latchet, lest
thou shouldest say, I have made Abram
rich,
24 Save only that, which the young men
have eaten, and the parts of the men
which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and
Mamre: let them take their parts.