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,
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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,
- 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.
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- Deut 3:11For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
- Deut 1:4After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
- Gen 15:20And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
- Deut 2:10–11The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
- Deut 3:22Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.
- Ps 105:23Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
- Deut 3:20Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.
- Josh 13:19And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar in the mount of the valley,
- Ps 78:51And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
- Ps 106:22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.
- 2 Sam 5:22And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
- 1 Chr 11:15Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
- Isa 17:5And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
- Josh 13:12All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
- 1 Chr 14:9And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
- Jer 48:23And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon,
- 2 Sam 5:18The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
- Deut 2:20–23(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
- Josh 13:31And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.
- Josh 12:4And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
- 2 Sam 23:13And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
- Jer 48:1Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.
- Ps 105:27They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
- 1 Chr 4:40And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.
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