14Genesis 14

1In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,Select Genesis 14:1

2they 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 (the same is Zoar).Select Genesis 14:2

3All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).Select Genesis 14:3

4Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.Select Genesis 14:4

5In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,Select Genesis 14:5

6and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness.Select Genesis 14:6

7They returned, and came to En Mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.Select Genesis 14:7

8The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim;Select Genesis 14:8

9against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.Select Genesis 14:9

10Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.Select Genesis 14:10

11They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.Select Genesis 14:11

12They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.Select Genesis 14:12

13One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram.Select Genesis 14:13

14When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.Select Genesis 14:14

15He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.Select Genesis 14:15

16He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.Select Genesis 14:16

17The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).Select Genesis 14:17

18Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.Select Genesis 14:18

19He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:Select Genesis 14:19

20and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.Select Genesis 14:20

21The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, and take the goods for yourself.”Select Genesis 14:21

22Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,Select Genesis 14:22

23that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’Select Genesis 14:23

24I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.”Select Genesis 14:24