“ All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. ”
- 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...
All these were (c) joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the (d) salt sea. (c) Ambition is the chief cause of wars among princes. (d) Called also the dead sea, or the lake Asphaltite, nea...
The Four Kings Make War with the Five Rebel Kings. The four kings of Lower Babylonia, Larsa, Elam, and (?) Guti, made war on the five kings of the cities of the Plain, who had formed a confederacy...
vale. Afterward, the Salt (or Dead Sea), when Moses wrote. Siddim . the Siddim.
All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. All these were joined together - i:e., were confederate. The vale of Siddim , [Hebrew, `eemeq ( H6010 ).]...
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...
All these were joined together. — Were united in a confederacy, and so formed a pentapolis, or group of five allied towns, like the Philistine league with its five lords ( 1 Samuel 6:16-18 ). The...
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,...
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...
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...
Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. The Reader is desired to recollect, that the Sodomites were the descendants of Canaan; on whom that memorable denunci...
All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim ,.... Or "of fields", or "ploughed lands" b, a fruitful vale abounding with corn; or of gardens or paradises, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jeru...
All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. Ver. 3. The salt sea. ] So it was afterwards called. See Trapp on " Gen 19:25 " See Plin., lib. v. cap. 16.
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...
Lot Taken Captive. B. C. 1913. 1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shi...
Which now is, though when this battle was fought it was not so.
‘And it happened in the days of Amraphel, King of Shinar, Arioch, King of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, King of Elam and Tidal, King of Goiim, that they made war with Bera, King of Sodom, and with Birsha, K...
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. ]...
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...
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...
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...
The Rebellion of the Valley Kings
salt sea. Genesis 19:24 Numbers 34:12 Deuteronomy 3:17 Joshua 3:16 Psalms 107:34