Genesis 14:13
We have here an account of the only military action we ever find Abram engaged in; and this he was not prompted to by avarice or ambition, but purely by a principle of charity.
11 Then they took aall the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way.
12 They also took Lot, Abram’s abrother’s son bwho dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
13 Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the aHebrew, for bhe dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner; cand they were allies with Abram.
14 Now awhen Abram heard that bhis brother was taken captive, he armed his three hundred and eighteen trained servants who were cborn in his own house, and went in pursuit das far as Dan.
15 He divided his forces against them by night, and he and his servants aattacked them and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.
16 So he abrought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot and his goods, as well as the women and the people.
17 And the king of Sodom awent out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, bthe King’s Valley), cafter his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him.
Abram and Melchizedek
18 Then aMelchizedek king of Salem brought out bbread and wine; he was cthe priest of dGod Most High.
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John Wesley's Notes
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