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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,
Genesis 14:5 · World English Bible
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  • 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,
  • BSB 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,
  • 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 remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its width, after the cubit of a man.)
  • Deut 1:4after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.
  • Gen 15:20the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
  • Deut 2:10–11(The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim.
  • Deut 3:22You shall not fear them; for Yahweh your God himself fights for you.”
  • Ps 105:23Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham.
  • Deut 3:20until Yahweh gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then you shall each return to his own possession, which I have given you.”
  • Josh 13:19Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar in the mount of the valley,
  • Ps 78:51and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
  • Ps 106:22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea.
  • 2 Sam 5:22The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
  • 1 Chr 11:15Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
  • Isa 17:5It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.
  • Josh 13:12all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (the same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses attacked these, and drove them out.
  • 1 Chr 14:9Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim.
  • Jer 48:23and on Kiriathaim, and on Beth Gamul, and on Beth Meon,
  • 2 Sam 5:18Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
  • Deut 2:20–23(That also is considered a land of Rephaim: Rephaim lived there before; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
  • Josh 13:31Half Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of Machir according to their families.
  • Josh 12:4and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
  • 2 Sam 23:13Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
  • Jer 48:1Of Moab. Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down.
  • Ps 105:27They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
  • 1 Chr 4:40They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceful; for those who lived there before were descended from Ham.

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