Genesis 14:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. ”

• Genesis 14:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  - Abram Rescues Lot 1. אמרפל 'amrāpel , Amraphel; related: unknown. אלריוך 'aryôk , Ariok, “leonine?” related: ארי 'arı̂y , “a lion:” a name re-appearing in the time of Daniel Daniel...

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• Genesis 14:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And they (f) took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. (f) The godly are plagued many times with the wicked: therefore their company is dangerous.

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• Genesis 14:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Genesis 12:1 to Genesis 25:18 . The Story of Abraham. In this section the three main sources, J. E, P are present. Gunkel has given strong reasons for holding that J is here made up of two main...

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• Genesis 14:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  who dwelt: emphasis to call attention to Genesis 13:12 . See note. Hebrew. HE (Lot), being. dweller in Sodom.

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• Genesis 14:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  12. And they took Lot. It is doubtful whether Lot remained at home while others went to the battle, and was there captured by the enemy; or whether he had been compelled to take arms with the...

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• Genesis 14:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. They took Lot, etc. - The people, being exceedingly wicked, had provoked God to afflict them by means of tho...

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• Genesis 14:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. They took Lot ... who dwelt in Sodom. Though retaining his pastoral habits, he seems to have taken u...

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• Genesis 14:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Battle of the Kings, and the Capture and Rescue of Lot Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, had subdued the Canaanites of the Jordan valley some years before the events narrated in this chapter. The la...

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• Genesis 14:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  ABRAM'S RESCUE OF LOT Genesis 14:1-24 THIS chapter evidently incorporates a contemporary account of the events recorded. So antique a document was it even when it found its place in this book,...

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• Genesis 14:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Abram at Hebron; Lot Taken Captive Genesis 13:14-18 ; Genesis 14:1-12 Lot lifted up his eyes for himself, but when the last of Lot's followers had streamed out of the camp, God bade Abram lift...

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• Genesis 14:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In this chapter we see Lot and Abram in differing circumstances, resulting in the first case from personal choice, and in the second from the choice of God. Lot was involved in trouble through associ...

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• Genesis 14:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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. Abram m...

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• Genesis 14:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son ,.... The son of Haran, his elder brother, who was now, as the Jews say x, fifty years of age: who dwelt in Sodom , or near it, in the country adjacent to...

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• Genesis 14:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. Ver. 12. And they took Lot. ] God passeth not by the sins of his dearest saints, without a sensible check...

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• Genesis 14:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE WORLD'S CONFLICT We read now for the first time in scripture of war among nations of the ungodly world. Abram has no part in this. It is recorded mainly because of Lot. Four kings war against...

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• Genesis 14:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Lot Taken Captive. B. C. 1913.       1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shi...

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• Genesis 14:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Lot now suffered for his cohabitation with bad neighbours.

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• Genesis 14:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘And 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.' The menti...

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• Genesis 14:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 14:1 . Arioch.] Probably signifies lion-like. The name re-appears in the time of Daniel, as applied to the captain of the king’s guard ( Daniel 2:14 ).— Chedorlaomer. ]...

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• Genesis 14:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Genesis 14:1 . Amraphel king of Shinar, the plain on which Babylon was built. The Hebrew melech, everywhere translated king, is equivalent, according to the Gothic etymon of the same word, to a...

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• Genesis 14:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  These made war The first war on record I. AS TO ITS MOTIVES. 1. Ambition. 2. Plunder. 3. The desire to recover lost sovereignty. II. AS TO THE CONDITIONS OF ITS SUCCESS. From the fa...

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• Genesis 14:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Genesis 14:1 And it came to pass. After the separation of Abram and Lot, the latter of whom now appears as a citizen of Sodom, and not merely a settler in the Jordan circle; pe...

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• Genesis 14:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Capture of Lot

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• Genesis 14:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Lot. Genesis 11:27 Genesis 12:5 who. Genesis 13:12 Genesis 13:13 Numbers 16:26 Job 9:23 Jeremiah 2:17-19 1 Timothy 6:9-11 Revelation 3:19 Revelation 18:4

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• Genesis 14:12 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Abram Delivers Lot Genesis 14:8-24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Let us bring before you the opening verses of Genesis fourteen. We have before us a story of war and strife. The various kings of citie...

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