And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
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Gill's Exposition
And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son,.... The son of Haran, his elder brother, who was now, as the Jews say (x), fifty years of age:
who dwelt in Sodom, or near it, in the country adjacent to…
- Abram Rescues Lot 1. אמרפל 'amrāpel, Amraphel; related: unknown. אלריוך 'aryôk, Ariok, “leonine?” related: ארי 'arı̂y, “a lion:” a name re-appearing in the time of Daniel Dan 2:14. אלסר 'elāsār…
Adam Clarke
They took Lot, etc. - The people, being exceedingly wicked, had provoked God to afflict them by means of those marauding kings; and Lot also suffered, being found in company with the workers of…
We have here an account of the first war that ever we read of in scripture, which (though the wars of the nations make the greatest figure in history) we should not have had the history of if Abram…
Cambridge Bible
Lot, Abram's brother's son Notice this minute description of Lot and the mention of his residence in Sodom, as if chap. 13 had not immediately preceded. In Gen 14:14; Gen 14:14, Lot is spoken of as…
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