Genesis 14:1

came to pass in the days of. Hebrew v'yahi bemeyi : occurs. times (see App-10); always marks. time of trouble ending in blessing. Compare Ruth 1:1.Isaiah 7:1.Jeremiah 1:3.Esther 1:1; 2 Samuel 21:1 (Compare Genesis 14:14).

in the days. Dated in the reign of. king of Babylon: the united forces led by. king of Elam. The Assyrian tablets show that Elam had conquered and overrun Babylonia. Amraphel reigned in N. (Shinar); Eri-Aku (Arioch), an Elamite prince, in the S. at Larsa (Ellasar), All the names here are found on one tablet.

Amraphel. Khammurabi of the Tablets. Ammurapi is Amraphel transliterated.

Arioch. Eri-aku of the Tablets, in which it is found that his mother was sister to Chedorlaomer.

nations. The Tablet says "lie assembled the Umman-manda ", or the barbarian tribes of the Kurdish mountains, and that he "did evil" to the land of Bel. The Assyrian tablets are therefore shown to be correct by their agreement with Genesis.