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Lot’s Captivity and Rescue
This chapter records the first battle in the Bible as well as the first in all of recorded history First the conditions are described (vv. 1-2).. It takes place between four powerful kings of the East and five Jordanian kings. This battle focuses at a point that intersects a main …

Abram and Melchizedek
After a brief look at Lot, we are taken back to Abraham (v. 13). When word reached Abraham that Lot had been captured, he could easily have shrugged his shoulders and said, “Well, Lot has gotten what he deserves! He should have stayed away from Sodom in the first place …