Genesis 14:1
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;
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Genesis 10:10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 11:2And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.
Isaiah 21:2A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler plundereth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all her sighing have I made to cease.
Isaiah 37:12Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
Jeremiah 49:34The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
Daniel 1:2And the LORD gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure-house of his god.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 14:1
We have four things in the story of this chapter. I. A war with the king of Sodom and his allies, ver. 1-11 . II. The captivity of Lot in that war, ver. 12 . III. Abram's rescue of Lot from that captivity, with the victory he obtained over the conquerors, ver. 13-16 . IV. Abram's return from the expedition, ( ver. 17 ), with an account of what passed, 1. Between him and the king of Salem, ver. 18-20 . 2. Between him and the king of Sodom, ver. 21-24 . So that here we have that promise to Abram in part fulfilled,… Read the whole commentary →