Genesis
Genesis 14
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Genesis 14 — Scripture text (King James Version)
And it came to pass in the days of king of , Arioch king of , Chedorlaomer king of , and king of nations; That these made war with king of , and with king of , Shinab king of , and king of , and the king of , which is . All these were joined together in the vale of , which is the . Twelve years they served , and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. And in the fourteenth year came , and the kings that were with him, and smote the in , and the in , and the in , And the in their mount , unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness. And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is , and smote all the country of the , and also the that dwelt in -. And there went out the king of , and the king of , and the king of , and the king of , and the king of (the same is ;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of ; With the king of , and with king of nations, and king of , and king of ; four kings with five. And the vale of was full of slimepits; and the kings of and fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain. And they took all the goods of and , and all their victuals, and went their way. And they took , Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in , and his goods, and departed. And there came one that had escaped, and told the ; for he dwelt in the plain of the , brother of , and brother of : and these were confederate with . And when heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto . And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto , which is the left hand of . And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother , and his goods, and the women also, and the people. And the king of went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of , and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of , which is the king’s dale. And king of brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. And the king of said unto , Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself. And said to the king of , I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made rich: Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and ; let them take their portion.