Genesis 14:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. ”

Genesis 14:4 - 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...
Genesis 14:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Genesis 14:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Twelve. The No. of Government. See App-10. served . had served, Genesis 14:4 goes back to the events leading up to the present war with Sodom. thirteenth. The first occurance. Hence the numb...
Genesis 14:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
Genesis 14:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer - i:e., were tributary to him (cf. 2 Kings 18:7 ). And in the thirte...
Genesis 14:4 - 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...
Genesis 14:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They served. — That is, paid a yearly tribute, that they might be exempt from Chedorlaomer’s marauding expeditions (see 2 Kings 18:7 ). There must, therefore, have been envoys going from time to...
Genesis 14:4 - 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,...
Genesis 14:4 - 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...
Genesis 14:4 - 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...
Genesis 14:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
Genesis 14:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer ,.... King of Elam, who was of the race of Shem, and so the prophecy of Noah began to be fulfilled, that Canaan should be servant to Shem, Genesis 9:26 ; for t...
Genesis 14:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. Ver. 4. They rebelled. ] Which they ought not to have done, if they had promised fidelity, unless in case of extrem...
Genesis 14:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 14:4 . Twelve years they served him The Sodomites were the posterity of Canaan, whom Noah had pronounced a servant to Shem, from whom Elam descended. Thus soon did that prophecy begin to b...
Genesis 14:4 - 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...
Genesis 14:4 - 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...
Genesis 14:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He was their lord, either, 1. By inheritance, as the issue of Elam, Shem's son, Genesis 10:22 . Or, 2. By conquest, having subdued those people in a former war, which Josephus speaks of.
Genesis 14:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘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...
Genesis 14:4 - 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. ]...
Genesis 14:4 - 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...
Genesis 14:4 - 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...
Genesis 14:4 - 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...
Genesis 14:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Rebellion of the Valley Kings
Genesis 14:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

they served. Genesis 9:25 Genesis 9:26 they rebelled. Ezekiel 17:15
Genesis 14:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Twelve years they served him — The Sodomites were the posterity of Canaan, whom Noah had pronounced a servant to Shem, from whom Elam descended. Thus soon did that prophecy begin to be fulfilled. I...

Genesis 14:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 14:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 14:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Genesis 14:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 14:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 14:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 14:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 14:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Genesis 14:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 14:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 14:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 14:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 14:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 14:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 14:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 14:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 14:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 14:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 14:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 14:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 14:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 14:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 14:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 14:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 14:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes