Genesis 14:5-7; 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, 6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness. 7 And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar. He got together with these kings of Babylon, Babylonia, and they made an invasion in the area that is today Jordan, but in history was Moab, and they invaded across the high country, clear on down to the area of Edom. The coming down to the-it gives you the city, all of the cities that they conquered here. And they came on finally across to Kadesh. They came south and then began to move west as they came to the area of Edom, and Mount Seir is where it was and then across to Kadesh. Having conquered all of these cities and archaeology has certainly confirmed this particular part of history here in the Bible as they have uncovered vast cities that were never rebuilt. They just totally wiped out the cities and all, took the spoil and the cities were never rebuilt. They have dated the ruins and so forth to about the seventeenth century B.C. to the nineteenth century B.C. so that it puts it about the time of this invasion. And theyve actually discovered many of these cities that are named here. And the ruins of these cities as they have put their spade to the Tells, and have uncovered really a vast civilization that once existed there. But they were wiped out by this invasion of the Babylonian confederacy with the Persian confederacy of kings. Now the whole purpose of the invasion was ultimately to get at Sodom these five cities of the plain that had rebelled against the tribute that they were paying to Chedorlaomer, the king of Elam. Genesis 14:10; And so they came [in verse ten] to the vale of Siddim which was full of slimepits...... Now the word slimepits is actually the asphalt pit. This was an area of a lot of tar asphalt pits down there in the valley, which when God sent fire from heaven to consume Sodom, probably set these things on fire and they probably burned for months. Once you get that hot enough to where its ignited and burning, it probably went on and on and on. So it was an area that was full of slime. Its an interesting thing that in the tower of Babel they used pitch for mortar. The word pitch there again is a word that signifies tar. Rockefeller when he read the Bible saw that and figured, hey, if its tar there must be oil and thats why he began to explore for oil over in that area of Saudi Arabia and Iran and so forth and thats why he became such an extremely wealthy man. He read his Bible and he used his head. and so the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled into the mountain (Gen 14:10). Now of course if youre down there, man, you know that theres all kinds of steep cliffs and caves and hiding places and Masada, one of the mountains down there that would overlook the area that was once Tyre and Sidon.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 02:33:50 +0000
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