Lessons
G. Hughes, B. D. Genesis 14:1-12 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam… 1. Ambition delays no time: when it hath power to revenge any affronts against it. Prom the time considered with the assailants. 2. Usually unjust rebellions are followed with severe destructions, and that speedily. 3. Ambition labours to get confederates and engage them with itself for its own ends. 4. Usurping ambition when it is powerful is very cruel, smiting, killing. 5. Ambitious oppressors spare not nations in their power. They destroy nations not a few. Such is the rant of the Assyrian (Isaiah 37). 6. Usurping tyrants pursue after blood when they have once tasted it. 7. God's overruling providence maketh wicked men execute vengeance upon each other for their wickedness. 8. Ambitious usurpers destroy all that is in their way to their unjust ends (vers. 5, 6, 7). (G. Hughes, B. D.) Kiriathaim. — Parallel Verses KJV: And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations; WEB: It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,