Genesis 14:5 meaning and explanation
In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
Genesis 14:5, Berean Standard Bible
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Genesis 14 records a regional war in which four eastern kings, led by Chedorlaomer of Elam, campaign against five kings of the Jordan plain who had rebelled after twelve years of subjection. Verse 5 marks the fourteenth year, when the coalition marches south and defeats several peoples east of the Jordan, including the Rephaites, Zuzites and Emites, groups remembered elsewhere in the Old Testament as unusually tall, ancient populations.
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