Genesis 14:4 meaning and explanation
For twelve years they had been subject to Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
Genesis 14:4, Berean Standard Bible
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The narrator pauses the battle account to explain why the five kings of the valley fought at all. For twelve years the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah and their allies had been subject to Chedorlaomer king of Elam, paying him tribute as a vassal; in the thirteenth year they withheld it and rebelled.
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