Gen. 14:5, 6. Thus God is pleased to honor His servant Abraham. First, He orders that in Providence, that shows the great strength of the enemy, by giving the victory over so many people and those that were so mighty. They subdue the race of the giants that were in these lands; and then He gives them an easy prey to Abraham and h is family, His little flock, and shows that the weakness of God is stronger than the greatest strength of men, when hand joins in hand and mighty princes are combined together. Abraham takes them in their greatest glory, and just after they had taken their richest prize, that which they took from that wealthy country of the plain of Sodom. In their highest pride and exaltation and triumph, they are suddenly brought down as Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar were. Thus God often deals with man. There seems to be a special hand of God with them to enable them to conquer those giants from the favor He bore to His servants Abraham and Lot, and to evacuate those countries of them that He designed to give to their posterity for a possession. See Deuteronomy 2:18; Deuteronomy 2:19, etc. They gave not God the glory of this great victory, but took it to themselves, as Nebuchadnezzar did the building of Babylon; therefore God destroyed them. That race of giants that were in and about Canaan, was probably the only race of giants upon earth. God had long war with them, and they were all destroyed; for the sake of His people, the race was entirely extirpated. They seemed to have been raised up for that end, that they might be types of the devils, and that their being destroyed before His people, might be a type of the victory Christ obtains over the devils for the sake of His people. See Jos. 10.

Gen. 14:15-16

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