Genesis 14:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And when he was coming back after putting to flight Chedorlaomer and the other kings, he had a meeting with the king of Sodom in the valley of Shaveh, that is, the King's Valley.

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  • 2 Sam 18:18 : 18 Now Absalom, before his death, had put up for himself a pillar in the king's valley, naming it after himself; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in memory: and to this day it is named Absalom's pillar.
  • Prov 14:20 : 20 The poor man is hated even by his neighbour, but the man of wealth has numbers of friends.
  • Prov 19:4 : 4 Wealth makes a great number of friends; but the poor man is parted from his friend.
  • Heb 7:1 : 1 For this Melchizedek, the king of Salem, a priest of the Most High God, who gave Abraham his blessing, meeting him when he came back after putting the kings to death,
  • Judg 11:34 : 34 Then Jephthah came back to his house in Mizpah, and his daughter came out, meeting him on his way with music and with dances; she was his only child; he had no other sons or daughters.
  • 1 Sam 18:6 : 6 Now on their way, when David came back after the destruction of the Philistine, the women came out of all the towns of Israel, with songs and dances, meeting David with melody and joy and instruments of music.

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  • 16And he got back all the goods, and Lot, his brother's son, with his goods and the women and the people.

  • Gen 14:1-13
    13 verses
    81%

    1Now in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,

    2They made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (which is Zoar).

    3All these came together in the valley of Siddim (which is the Salt Sea).

    4For twelve years they were under the rule of Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they put off his control.

    5And in the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings who were on his side, overcame the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

    6And the Horites in their mountain Seir, driving them as far as El-paran, which is near the waste land.

    7Then they came back to En-mishpat (which is Kadesh), making waste all the country of the Amalekites and of the Amorites living in Hazazon-tamar.

    8And the king of Sodom with the king of Gomorrah and the king of Admah and the king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela (that is Zoar), went out, and put their forces in position in the valley of Siddim,

    9Against Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, and Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king of Ellasar: four kings against the five.

    10Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.

    11And the four kings took all the goods and food from Sodom and Gomorrah and went on their way.

    12And in addition they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who was living in Sodom, and all his goods.

    13And one who had got away from the fight came and gave word of it to Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the holy tree of Mamre, the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner, who were friends of Abram.

  • Heb 7:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    1For this Melchizedek, the king of Salem, a priest of the Most High God, who gave Abraham his blessing, meeting him when he came back after putting the kings to death,

    2And to whom Abraham gave a tenth part of everything which he had, being first named King of righteousness, and then in addition, King of Salem, that is to say, King of peace;

  • Gen 14:18-22
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    18And Melchizedek, king of Salem, the priest of the Most High God, took bread and wine,

    19And blessing him, said, May the blessing of the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth, be on Abram:

    20And let the Most High God be praised, who has given into your hands those who were against you. Then Abram gave him a tenth of all the goods he had taken.

    21And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the prisoners and take the goods for yourself.

    22But Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have taken an oath to the Lord, the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth,

  • 15So the king came back, and came as far as Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, meeting the king there, to take him back with them over Jordan.

  • 1And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth.

  • 16And the men went on from there in the direction of Sodom; and Abraham went with them on their way.

  • 12Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.

  • 10And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

  • 24Give me nothing but the food which the fighting-men who went with me have had; but let Aner and Eshcol and Mamre have their part of the goods.

  • Gen 19:28-29
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    28And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven.

    29So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.

  • 10Because he was still in his father's body when Melchizedek came to him.

  • 19Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.

  • 1And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South.