Genesis 14:8
“And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;”
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Read in Genesis 14Meaning
The local coalition takes the field in the Valley of Siddim for the decisive confrontation.
Read carefully
Abram has not entered the battle here; the verse stages a regional war rather than a command for religious violence.
Reflection
The chapter distinguishes the surrounding war from Abram's later and narrower purpose of recovering captives.