EXPOSITION GENESIS 14:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS. After the separation of Abram and Lot, the latter of whom now appears as a citizen of Sodom, and not merely a settler in the Jordan circle; perhaps about the eighty-fourth year of Abram's life (Hughes). The present chapter, "the oldest extant record resp... [ Continue Reading ]
EXPOSITION GENESIS 14:13 AND THERE CAME ONE THAT HAD ESCAPED. Literally, _the fugitive party_, the article denoting the genus, as in "the Canaanite,'' Genesis 12:6. AND TOLD ABRAM THE HEBREW. "The immigrant" _trans fluvialis_, ὁ περάτης, from beyond the Euphrates, if applied to the patriarch by t... [ Continue Reading ]
EXPOSITION GENESIS 14:17 AND THE KING OF SODOM—Bera, or his successor (_vide_ Genesis 14:10)—WENT OUT TO MEET HIM (_i.e._ Abram) AFTER HIS RETURN FROM THE SLAUGHTER (perhaps too forcible an expression for mere defeat) OF CHEDORLAOMER, AND THE KINGS THAT WERE WITH HIM (the entire clause from "after... [ Continue Reading ]