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 be fulfilled. In the thirteenth year (beginning to be weary of their subjection) they rebelled Denied their tribute, and attempted to shake off the yoke.