12And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
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And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. …
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)We have here an account of the first war that ever we read of in scripture, which (though the wars of the nations make the greatest figure in history) we should not have had the history of if Abram and Lot had not been concerned in it. Now, concerning this war, we may observe, I. The parties engaged in it. The invaders were four kings, two of them no less than kings of Shinar and Elam (that is, Ch…
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