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Genesis 14

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The Book of Genesis

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Summary

Lot is captured during the battles of Near Eastern kings. Abram rescues him. Melchizedek blesses Abram while administering bread and wine to him. Abram pays tithes. Abram does not accept the spoils of conquest when the King of Sodom offers them to him, because he has promised the Lord that he will not.

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Cover of Old Testament Cultural Insights by Avram Shannon.

Shinar

Avram Shannon, “Shinar,” in Old Testament Cultural Insights, ed. Taylor Halverson (Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central, 2022).

Historical Commentaries

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Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible

Matthew Henry (1706)

Commentary on the Bible

Adam Clarke (1831)

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable

Thomas Constable

Rashi’s Commentary

Rashi (Shlomo Yitzchaki)

Notes on the Bible

Albert Barnes (1834)

Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Gill (1746–63)

Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch (1857–78)

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible

John Wesley (1754–65)

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Where Do We Pitch Our Tents? (Genesis 13-14)

Book of Mormon Central

What Does Melchizedek Mean? (Genesis 14)

Book of Mormon Central

Overview: Genesis 12-50

Bible Project

Abraham and Melchizedek

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Historical Settings

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Lot and His Daughters by Artemisia Gentileschi

Lot

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Abram

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Amraphel

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Arioch

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Chedorlaomer

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Tidal

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Bera

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Birsha

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Shinab

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Shemeber

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Zoar

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Rephaims

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Zuzims

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Emims

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Horites, Horim, or Horims

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Amalekites

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Amorites

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Mamre

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Eshcol

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Aner

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Melchizedek

Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, "God the Father," ca. 1510-1517.

God

LORD

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Shinar

Ellasar

Elam

Ghawr Almazra'a Sub-District, Jordan. Photo by Adeeb Atwan via Wikimedia Commons.

Sodom

Ghawr Almazra'a Sub-District, Jordan. Photo by Adeeb Atwan via Wikimedia Commons.

Gomorrah

Admah

Zeboim or Zeboiim

Bela

Zoar

Siddim

Ashteroth Karnaim

Ham

Shaveh Kiriathaim

Seir

El-paran

En-mishpat

Kadesh or Kadesh-barnea

Hazezon-tamar

Ramat el Khalil. Photo by Yywilk via Wikimedia Commons.

Mamre (plain)

Dan

Hobah

Damascus

Shaveh

Salem

Heaven

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Earth

Time

*All Dates Are Approximate, according to the narrative of the Bible. These dates may reflect literary significance as opposed to the precise dates of history.

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  • 2084 BC

Further Reading

RoseAnn Benson, “Reexamining Lot,” Religious Educator 14, no. 1 (2013): 59–81.

Book of Mormon Central, “Why Did Alma Talk about Melchizedek? (Alma 13:14),” KnoWhy 120 (June 13, 2016).

David M. Calabro, “Understanding Ritual Hand Gestures of the Ancient World: Some Basic Tools,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 37 (2020): 293–308.

Judd, Frank F. Jr., “Melchizedek: Seeing After the Zion of Enoch,” in Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson (Provo and Salt Lake City: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, and Deseret Book 2005), 69–82.

Victor L. Ludlow, “The Scattering and Gathering of Israel: God’s Covenant with Abraham Remembered through the Ages,” in Window of Faith: Latter-day Saint Perspectives on World History, ed. Roy A. Prete (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005), 97–120.

John W. Welch, “The Melchizedek Material in Alma 13:13–19,” in By Study and Also by Faith, 2 vols., ed. John M. Lundquist and Stephen D. Ricks (Salt Lake City and Provo, Utah: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1990), 2:238–272.

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