Génesis 14:15

15 Allí dividió a sus hombres en grupos y atacó durante la noche. El ejército de Quedorlaomer huyó, pero Abram lo persiguió hasta Hoba, al norte de Damasco.

Génesis 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.

Génesis 14:15 In-Context

13 Uno de los hombres de Lot escapó y le contó todo a Abram, el hebreo, que vivía cerca del robledo que pertenecía a Mamre, el amorreo. Mamre y sus parientes, Escol y Aner, eran aliados de Abram.

14 Cuando Abram se enteró de que su sobrino Lot había sido capturado, movilizó a los trescientos dieciocho hombres adiestrados que habían nacido en su casa. Entonces persiguió al ejército de Quedorlaomer hasta que lo alcanzó en Dan.

15 Allí dividió a sus hombres en grupos y atacó durante la noche. El ejército de Quedorlaomer huyó, pero Abram lo persiguió hasta Hoba, al norte de Damasco.

16 Abram recuperó todos los bienes que habían sido tomados, y trajo de regreso a su sobrino Lot junto con sus pertenencias, las mujeres y los demás cautivos.

17 Melquisedec bendice a Abram
Después de que Abram regresó de su victoria sobre el rey Quedorlaomer y todos sus aliados, el rey de Sodoma salió a encontrarse con él en el valle de Save (que es el valle del Rey).