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Genesis 14:3–5

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All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
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From verse 3

  1. Deuteronomy 3:17Rank 1 from verse 3
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    17The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward.

  2. Joshua 3:16Rank 2 from verse 3
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    16That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.

  3. Numbers 34:12Rank 3 from verse 3
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    12And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.

  4. Genesis 19:24Rank 4 from verse 3
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    24Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;

  5. Psalms 107:34Rank 5 from verse 3
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    34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

From verse 4

  1. Ezekiel 17:15Rank 1 from verse 4
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    15But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?

  2. Genesis 9:25–26Rank 2 from verse 4
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    25And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

    26And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

From verse 5

  1. Deuteronomy 1:4Rank 1 from verse 5
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    4After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:

  2. Deuteronomy 2:10–11Rank 2 from verse 5
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    10The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;

    11Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.

  3. Deuteronomy 3:11Rank 3 from verse 5
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    11For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

  4. Genesis 15:20Rank 4 from verse 5
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    20And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

  5. Deuteronomy 3:22Rank 5 from verse 5
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    22Ye shall not fear them: for the Lord your God he shall fight for you.

  6. 1 Chronicles 11:15Rank 6 from verse 5
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    15¶ Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

  7. 1 Chronicles 14:9Rank 7 from verse 5
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    9And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

  8. 1 Chronicles 4:40Rank 8 from verse 5
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    40And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.

  9. 2 Samuel 23:13Rank 9 from verse 5
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    13And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.

  10. 2 Samuel 5:18Rank 10 from verse 5
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    18The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

  11. 2 Samuel 5:22Rank 11 from verse 5
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    22¶ And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

  12. Deuteronomy 2:20–23Rank 12 from verse 5
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    20(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;

    21A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the Lord destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:

    22As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:

    23And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)

  13. Deuteronomy 3:20Rank 13 from verse 5
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    20Until the Lord have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the Lord your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.

  14. Isaiah 17:5Rank 14 from verse 5
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    5And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

  15. Jeremiah 48:1Rank 15 from verse 5
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    1AGAINST Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.

  16. Jeremiah 48:23Rank 16 from verse 5
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    23And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon,

  17. Joshua 12:4Rank 17 from verse 5
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    4¶ And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

  18. Joshua 13:12Rank 18 from verse 5
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    12All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.

  19. Joshua 13:19Rank 19 from verse 5
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    19And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zareth-shahar in the mount of the valley,

  20. Joshua 13:31Rank 20 from verse 5
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    31And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.

  21. Psalms 105:23Rank 21 from verse 5
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    23Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

  22. Psalms 105:27Rank 22 from verse 5
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    27They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

  23. Psalms 106:22Rank 23 from verse 5
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    22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.

  24. Psalms 78:51Rank 24 from verse 5
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    51And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

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Genesis 14:3

COMBINED MEANING

joined

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Connected, fastened, united, associated, attached, adjoining, or brought together.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

vale

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A tract of low ground, especially land between hills; a valley.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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sea

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1. A great body or expanse of gathered waters, including a named sea or lake, in which ships and creatures move. 2. The large brazen or molten basin made for the temple and called a sea. 3. Something represented or compared as a sea.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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Genesis 14:4

COMBINED MEANING

served

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of serve, meaning to work for, obey, attend, minister to, worship, or fulfil a purpose.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

rebelled

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Refused obedience, resisted authority, revolted, withdrew allegiance, or turned against the Lord, his words, or an appointed ruler.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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Genesis 14:5

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

smote

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1. Struck or dealt a blow to a person or thing with a hand, weapon, instrument, object, or force. 2. Attacked, defeated, slew, destroyed, or devastated a person, army, city, people, or land. 3. Afflicted, injured, or visited with disease, plague, blindness, calamity, or judgment. 4. Of the heart, convicted, troubled, or reproved inwardly.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

Ham

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Sense 1: Ham, a son of Noah and an ancestor named in the genealogies. Sense 2: The land of Ham.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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14:1AND it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;

14:2That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.

14:3All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.

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14:4Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

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14:5And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

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14:6And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness.

14:7And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar.

14:8And 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;

14:9With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five.

14:10And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.

14:11And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.

14:12And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

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