Thursday, April 2, 2009

Genesis 14

Hi! This is my first blog! This is cool. I am sitting in my front room on my laptop blogging! Well anyway . . .
Liesel wanted my commentary on Genesis 14, so here goes. There were some guys that did a thing and got some people ticked and then they had a war and someone said something. Want a little more detail? Ok. The kings of Sodom and Gomorrah rebelled against the king of Elam, hereafter called Mr. C. He didn't like that so he came, defeated some other kings, and came up against the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah, raided their cities, took all of their food, kidnapped Lot, Abraham's nephew, and split. A fugitive told Abraham, who gathered up 318 of his men and took after Mr. C and his bunch. He defeated Mr. C's armies and chased them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus. He rescued Lot, his posessions, women and people (servants, etc., I assume). When Abraham and his entourage returned and were passing through the valley of Shevah, the king of Sodom and Melchizedek, the king of Salem, came out to meet him. Melchizedek, who was also a priest of God (in the book of Hebrews, Christ is called a priest after the order of Melchizedek), blessed Abraham, and Abraham give him a tenth, that is, a tithe. Then the king of Sodom offered to let Abraham keep the rescued goods from the two cities, but Abraham refused, saying that he didn't want anything that belonged to the king of Sodom, only the food that the rescued prisoner's had eaten (I have heard teachers explain that Abraham had such disdain for the king of Sodom that he didn't want any gifts from him so that he would not be obligated to him in any way). There you have it, the HNV (Harvester Nutshell Version).

1 comment:

  1. the way that I read it, they were rebelling against the King of Babylon...

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