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Genesis 14:7 KJV
Genesis · chapter 14 · verse 7
And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.Genesis 14:7 · King James Version
Genesis 14:7 in context
5And 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,
6And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.
7And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.
8And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;
9With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- AmalekitesʻĂmâlêqîyan Amalekite or descendants of AmalekH6003 →
- EnmishpatʻÊyn MishpâṭEn-Mishpat, a place near PalestineH5880 →
- returnedshûwbto turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figurativelyH7725 →
- AmoritesʼĔmôrîyan Emorite, one of the Canaanitish tribesH567 →
- countrysâdeha fieldH7704 →
- KadeshQâdêshKadesh, a place in the DesertH6946 →
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We have here an account of the first war that ever we read of in scripture, which (though the wars of the nations make the greatest figure in history) we should not have had the history of if Abram and Lot had not been concerned in it. Now, concerning this war, we may observe, I. The parties engaged in it.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-12