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In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
Genesis 14:5 · Berean Standard Bible
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  • WEB In 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,
  • KJV 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,
  • NKJV In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him came and attacked the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
  • NASB And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
  • NLT One year later Kedorlaomer and his allies arrived and defeated the Rephaites at Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites at Ham, the Emites at Shaveh-kiriathaim,

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Quick answer

Chedorlaomer's coalition crushed several peoples on their campaign. The eastern kings sweep powerfully through the region.

Overview

The invading kings defeat the Rephaim, Zuzim, and Emim, peoples reputed for their size and strength. The catalog of victories displays the coalition's formidable might. This makes Abram's later defeat of these same forces all the more clearly a work of God's enabling power.

Cross-references & the web

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  • Deut 3:11(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
  • Deut 1:4This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and then at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.
  • Gen 15:20Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
  • Deut 2:10–11(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.
  • Deut 3:22Do not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God Himself will fight for you.”
  • Ps 105:23Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.
  • Deut 3:20until the LORD gives rest to your brothers as He has to you, and they too have taken possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving them across the Jordan. Then each of you may return to the possession I have given you.”
  • Josh 13:19Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth-shahar on the hill in the valley,
  • Ps 78:51He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.
  • Ps 106:22wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
  • 2 Sam 5:22Once again the Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
  • 1 Chr 11:15Three of the thirty chief men went down to David, to the rock at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
  • Isa 17:5as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
  • Josh 13:12the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who had reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei and had remained as a remnant of the Rephaim. Moses had struck them down and dispossessed them,
  • 1 Chr 14:9Now the Philistines had come and raided the Valley of Rephaim.
  • Jer 48:23upon Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon,
  • 2 Sam 5:18Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
  • Deut 2:20–23(That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.
  • Josh 13:31half of Gilead; and Ashtaroth and Edrei, the royal cities of Og in Bashan. All this was for the clans of the descendants of Machir son of Manasseh, that is, half of the descendants of Machir.
  • Josh 12:4And Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.
  • 2 Sam 23:13At harvest time, three of the thirty chief men went down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
  • Jer 48:1Concerning Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo, for it will be devastated. Kiriathaim will be captured and disgraced; the fortress will be shattered and dismantled.
  • Ps 105:27They performed His miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
  • 1 Chr 4:40There they found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious, peaceful, and quiet; for some Hamites had lived there formerly.

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