Genesis 14:5

And in the fourteenth year came Kedar-laomer, and the kings who were with him, and smote the giants who were in Ashtaroth Karnaim, and the mighty who were in Chemta, and the terrible ones who were in Shaveh Kiryathaim,

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

In Context

4Twelve years they had served Kedar-laomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

6and the Horaee who were in the mountain of Seir, unto the plain of Paran which lieth upon the desert.

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Cross References

Genesis 15:20and the Hittaee, and the Pherizaee, and the Gibbaraee,

Deuteronomy 2:10The Emethanee in old times dwelt in it; a people great and many, and strong as the giants.

Deuteronomy 3:11For only Og king of Mathnan remained of the remnant of the giants. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron: is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, nine cubits its length, and four cubits its breadth, in the cubit of the king?

Deuteronomy 3:22Fear them not, for the Word of the Lord your God will fight for you.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 14:2-13

Lot Taken Captive. ( b. c. 1913.) 1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations; 2 That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. 3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. 4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. 5 And in the… Read the whole commentary →

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