Genesis 14:5
And 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,
Genesis 14:5 in other translations
| BSB | 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, |
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| WEB | In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim, |
| ASV | And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim, |
| YLT | And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings who are with him, and they smite the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim, |
| DARBY | And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-Kirjathaim, |
| BBE | And 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, |
| Webster | And 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 Emins in Shaveh Kiriathaim, |
What does Genesis 14:5 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 14:1-12
The wars of nations make great figure in history, but we should not have had the record of this war if Abram and Lot had not been concerned. Out of covetousness, Lot had settled in fruitful, but wicked Sodom. Its inhabitants were the most ripe for vengeance of all the descendants of Canaan. The invaders were from Chaldea and Persia, then only small kingdoms. They took Lot among the rest, and his goods. Though he was…
Genesis 14:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 14:5
- Deuteronomy 3:11
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
- Deuteronomy 2:10-11
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
- Genesis 15:20
And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
- Deuteronomy 1:4
After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
- Deuteronomy 3:22
Ye shall not fear them: for the Lord your God he shall fight for you.
- Jeremiah 48:23
And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth–gamul, and upon Beth–meon,
- 2 Samuel 5:22
And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
- 1 Chronicles 4:40
And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.
- Joshua 13:12
All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
- 2 Samuel 5:18
The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
- Joshua 13:31
And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.
- Psalms 105:27
They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
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15:20; De 3:11,20,22; 2Sa 5:18,22; 23:13; 1Ch 11:15; 14:9; Isa 17:5
Ashteroth.The same as Ashteroth, a city of Bashan, where Og afterwards reigned.
De 1:4; Jos 12:4; 13:12,31
Zuzims.
De 2:20-23; 1Ch 4:40; Ps 78:51; 105:23,27; 106:22
Emims.
De 2:10,11
Shaveh Kiriathaim. or, the plains of Kiriathaim;Kiriathaim was beyond Jordan, 10 miles west-ward from Medeba, and afterwards belonged to Sihon, king of Heshbon.
Jos 13:19; Jer 48:1,23
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Context
- Genesis 14:4
Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
- Genesis 14:5
And 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,
- Genesis 14:6
And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El–paran, which is by the wilderness.
Genesis 14:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y en el año décimocuarto vino Chêdorlaomer, y los reyes que estaban de su parte, y derrotaron á los Raphaitas en Ashteroth-carnaim, á los Zuzitas en Ham, y á los Emitas en Shave-Kiriataim. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et la quatorzième année, Kedor-Laomer vint, et les rois qui étaient avec lui, et ils frappèrent les Rephaïm à Ashteroth-Karnaïm, et les Zuzim à Ham, et les Émim à Shavé-Kiriathaïm, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und im vierzehnten Jahre kamen Kedorlaomer und die Könige, die mit ihm waren, und schlugen die Rephaim zu Asteroth-Karnaim und die Susim zu Ham und die Emim in der Ebene von Kirjathaim, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Igitur quartodecimo anno venit Chodorlahomor, et reges qui erant cum eo: percusseruntque Raphaim in Astarothcarnaim, et Zuzim cum eis, et Emim in Save Cariathaim, |