Genesis 14:1

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Genesis 14:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim

2 went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

3 The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea ).

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Genesis 10:10

His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 11:2

And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

Isaiah 11:11

On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

Daniel 1:2

And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them in the treasury of his god.

Zechariah 5:11

“To build a house for it in the land of Shinar,” he told me. “And when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its pedestal.”

Isaiah 37:12

Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?

Genesis 10:22

The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

Isaiah 21:2

A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”

Isaiah 22:6

Elam takes up a quiver, with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovers the shield.

Jeremiah 25:25

all the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media;

Jeremiah 49:34

This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah.

Jeremiah 49:35

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will shatter Elam’s bow, the mainstay of their might.

Jeremiah 49:36

I will bring the four winds against Elam from the four corners of the heavens, and I will scatter them to all these winds. There will not be a nation to which Elam’s exiles will not go.

Jeremiah 49:37

So I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who seek their lives. I will bring disaster upon them, even My fierce anger,” declares the LORD. “I will send out the sword after them until I finish them off.

Jeremiah 49:38

I will set My throne in Elam, and destroy its king and officials,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 49:39

“Yet in the last days, I will restore Elam from captivity,” declares the LORD.

Ezekiel 32:24

Elam is there with all her multitudes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword— those who went down uncircumcised to the earth below, who once spread their terror in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit.