Chuàngshìjì 14:15

15 Biàn zaì yè jiān , zìjǐ tóng púrén fēnduì shā baì dírén , yòu zhuī dào Dàmǎsè zuǒbiān de Hébǎ ,

Chuàngshìjì 14:15 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 14:15

And he divided himself against them, he and his servants by
night
Together with his confederates; and very probably their whole three was divided into four parts, under their four leaders; and this might be done in order to attack the four kings and their soldiers, who might be in four separate bodies; or to fall upon their camp in the four quarters of it, and to make a show of a greater army, thereby to intimidate the enemy: Abram seems to have understood the art of war, and the use of stratagems in it; and, as it might be night before he could come up to them, he took the advantage of that, and fell upon them unawares, when some were asleep in their beds, and others drunk, as Josephus ^F7 relates; and who also says, it was on the fifth night after Abram had knowledge of what had happened at Sodom: and smote them, and pursued them unto Hoba, which [is] on the left
hand of Damascus;
a famous city in Syria; it was in later times the metropolis of that country, ( Isaiah 7:8 ) ; and was most delightfully situated in a vale, (See Gill on Jeremiah 49:25); according to Josephus ^F8 it was built by Uz, the son of Aram and grandson of Shem, and some say

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 by Shem himself, and that it is to this day called Sem in the Saracene language, and lay between Palestine and Coelesyria; on the left hand of this city, or on the north of it, as all the Targums paraphrase it, lay a place called Hoba, and is completed to be eighty miles from Dan, from whence he pursued them hither, after he had discomfited them there.
F7 Antiqu. l. 1. c. 10. sect. 1.
F8 lbid. c. 6. sect. 4.
F9 Baumgarten. Peregrinatio, l. 3. c. 4. p. 111.

Chuàngshìjì 14:15 In-Context

13 Yǒu yī gĕ taó chūlai de rén gàosu Xībólái rén Yàbólán . Yàbólán zhèng zhù zaì Yàmólìrén Mànlì de xiàngshù nàli . Mànlì hé Yǐshí gĕ bìng Yànǎi dōu shì dìxiōng , céng yǔ Yàbólán liánméng .

14 Yàbólán tīngjian tā zhíér ( yuánwén shì dìxiōng ) beìlǔ qù , jiù shuaìlǐng tā jia lǐ shēng yǎng de jīngliàn zhuàng dīng sān bǎi yī shí bā rén , zhí zhuī dào dàn ,

15 Biàn zaì yè jiān , zìjǐ tóng púrén fēnduì shā baì dírén , yòu zhuī dào Dàmǎsè zuǒbiān de Hébǎ ,

16 Jiàng beìlǔ lüè de yīqiè cáiwù duó huí lái , lián tā zhíér Luódé hé tāde cáiwù , yǐjí fùnǚ , rénmín yĕ dōu duó huí lái .

17 Yàbólán shā baì Jīdàlǎomǎ hé yù tā tóngméng de wáng huí lái de shíhou , Suǒduōmǎ wáng chūlai , zaì Shāwēigǔ yíngjiē tā . Shāwēigǔ jiù shì Wánggǔ .