4Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
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And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. …
But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?
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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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