Genesis 14:17

World English Bible (2000)

The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).

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  • 2 Sam 18:18 : 18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale; for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in memory." He called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom's monument, to this day.
  • Prov 14:20 : 20 The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.
  • Prov 19:4 : 4 Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.
  • Heb 7:1 : 1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
  • Judg 11:34 : 34 Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances: and she was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
  • 1 Sam 18:6 : 6 It happened as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music.

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  • 16 He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

  • Gen 14:1-13
    13 verses
    81%

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

    2 that they 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 (the same is Zoar).

    3 All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).

    4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.

    5 In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

    6 and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

    7 They returned, and came to En Mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.

    8 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) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim;

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

    10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.

    11 They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.

    12 They took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

    13 One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram.

  • Heb 7:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

    2 to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace;

  • Gen 14:18-22
    5 verses
    78%

    18 Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.

    19 He blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:

    20 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Abram gave him a tenth of all.

    21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself."

    22 Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

  • 15 So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.

  • 1 The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,

  • 16 The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

  • 12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

  • 10 Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

  • 24 I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion."

  • Gen 19:28-29
    2 verses
    67%

    28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

    29 It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

  • 10 for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met him.

  • 19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.

  • 1 Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.