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Then the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Bera (that is, Zoar) took up battle positions in the Siddim Valley
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against King Chedorlaomer of Elam, King Tidal of Goiim, King Amraphel of Shinar, and King Arioch of Ellasar, four kings against five.
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Now the Siddim Valley was filled with tar pits. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah retreated, they fell into them; and the rest fled to the mountains.
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They took everything from Sodom and Gomorrah, including its food supplies, and left.
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They also took Lot, Abram's nephew who lived in Sodom, and everything he owned, and took off.
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When a survivor arrived, he told Abram the Hebrew, who lived near the oaks of the Amorite Mamre, who was the brother of Eshcol and Aner, Abram's treaty partners.
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When Abram heard that his relative had been captured, he took all of the loyal men born in his household, three hundred eighteen, and went after them as far as Dan.
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During the night, he and his servants divided themselves up against them, attacked, and chased them to Hobah, north of Damascus.
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He brought back all of the looted property, together with his relative Lot and Lot's property, wives, and people.
Abram blessed by Melchizedek
17 After Abram returned from his attack on Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom came out to the Shaveh Valley (that is, the King's Valley) to meet him.
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Now Melchizedek the king of Salem and the priest of El Elyon had brought bread and wine,