Chapter Fourteen And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar,
Ariok king of Elessar, Keteleimir king of Elam, and Tidal king of Nations,
that these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Bersha king of Gomorrah,
Shinab king of Adma, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela which is
Zoar.
All these were joined together in the vale of Sidim, which is the salt sea.
Twelve years they served Keteleimir, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
And in the fourteenth year came Keteleimir and the kings that were with him,
and smote the Rephaims in Ashtaroth, Carnaeum, and the Zuzims in Ham,
and the Emims in Shebachariathaim, and the Horites in their mount Seir,
unto Elperim, which is by the wilderness.
And they returned and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country
of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites that dwell in Hazazontamer.
And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of
Adma, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, the same as Zoar.
And they joined battle with them in the vale of Sidim, with Keteleimir the king of
Elam, and with Tidal king of Nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Eriach
king of Elessar.
Four kings with five.
And the vale of Sidim was full of slime pits.
And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled and fell there, and they that remained
fled to the mountain.
And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their vittles,
and went their way.
And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods,
and departed.
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 Einar.
And these were confederate with Abram.
And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained
servants, born in his own house, 318, and pursued them unto Dan.
And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night,
and smote them, and pursued them unto Hoba, which is on the left hand of
Damascus.
And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot,
and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of
Kedulamer, and of the kings that were with him at the valley of Sheba, which is the
king's dale.
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine, and he was the
priest of the most high God.
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram, 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 Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to
thyself.
And Abram said to the king of Sodom, 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 anything that is thine,
lest thou shouldst say, I have made Abram rich.
Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which
went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre.
Let them take their portion.