Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Slime-pits - Places where asphaltus or bitumen sprang out of the ground; this substance abounded in that country.
Fell there - It either signifies they were defeated on this spot, and many of them slain, or that multitudes of them had perished in the bitumen-pits which abounded there; that the place was full of pits we learn from the Hebrew, which reads here beeroth beeroth , pits, pits, i.e., multitudes of pits. A bad place to maintain a fight on, or to be obliged to run through in order to escape.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Genesis 14:10:
Genesis 14:17
Genesis 19:24
Psalms 110:5
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