Genesis 14:6 and the Horites in the hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran near the desert.

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New International Version
and the Horites in the hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran near the desert.

English Standard Version
and the Horites in their hill country of Seir as far as El-paran on the border of the wilderness.

New American Standard Bible
and the Horites in their Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is by the wilderness.

King James Bible
And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
and the Horites in the mountains of Seir, as far as El-paran by the wilderness.

International Standard Version
and the Horites in the hill country of Seir, near El-paran by the desert.

American Standard Version
and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Chorreans in the mountains of Seir, even to the plains of Pharan, which is in the wilderness.

Darby Bible Translation
and the Horites on their mount Seir, to El-Paran, which is by the wilderness.

Young's Literal Translation
and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-Paran, which is by the wilderness;

Cross References

Genesis 21:21
And he dwelled in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

Genesis 32:3
And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

Genesis 36:20
These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,

Numbers 10:12
And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.

Deuteronomy 2:12
The Horims also dwelled in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelled in their stead; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.

Deuteronomy 2:22
As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelled in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelled in their stead even to this day:

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

14:1-12 The wars of nations make great figure in history, but we should not have had the record of this war if Abram and Lot had not been concerned. Out of covetousness, Lot had settled in fruitful, but wicked Sodom. Its inhabitants were the most ripe for vengeance of all the descendants of Canaan. The invaders were from Chaldea and Persia, then only small kingdoms. They took Lot among the rest, and his goods. Though he was righteous, and Abram's brother's son, yet he was with the rest in this trouble. Neither our own piety, nor our relation to the favourites of Heaven, will be our security when God's judgments are abroad. Many an honest man fares the worse for his wicked neighbours: it is our wisdom to separate, or at least to distinguish ourselves from them, 2Co 6:17. So near a relation of Abram should have been a companion and a disciple of Abram. If he chose to dwell in Sodom, he must thank himself if he share in Sodom's losses. When we go out of the way of our duty, we put ourselves from under God's protection, and cannot expect that the choice made by our lusts, should end to our comfort. They took Lot's goods; it is just with God to deprive us of enjoyments, by which we suffer ourselves to be deprived of the enjoyment of him.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 14

Ge 14:1-24. War.

1. And it came to pass—This chapter presents Abram in the unexpected character of a warrior. The occasion was this: The king of Sodom and the kings of the adjoining cities, after having been tributaries for twelve years to the king of Elam, combined to throw off his yoke. To chastise their rebellion, as he deemed it, Chedorlaomer, with the aid of three allies, invaded the territories of the refractory princes, defeated them in a pitched battle where the nature of the ground favored his army (Ge 14:10), and hastened in triumph on his homeward march, with a large amount of captives and booty, though merely a stranger.