Genesis - 14:16



16 He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 14:16.

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And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
And he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
And he brought back all the substance, and Lot his brother, with his substance, the women also the people.
And he brought back all the property, and brought again his brother Lot and his property, and the women also, and the people.
and he bringeth back the whole of the substance, and also Lot his brother and his substance hath he brought back, and also the women and the people.
And he got back all the goods, and Lot, his brother's son, with his goods and the women and the people.
And he brought back all the substance, and Lot his brother, with his substance, likewise the women and the people.
Et reduxit omnem substantiam, et etiam Lot fratrem suum, et substantiam ejus reduxit, atque etiam mulieres et populum.

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Historical Commentaries

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And he brought back - the women also - This is brought in by the sacred historian with peculiar interest and tenderness. All who read the account must be in pain for the fate of wives and daughters fallen into the hands of a ferocious, licentious, and victorious soldiery. Other spoils the routed confederates might have left behind; and yet on their swift asses, camels, and dromedaries, have carried off the female captives. However, Abram had disposed his attack so judiciously, and so promptly executed his measures, that not only all the baggage, but all the females also, were recovered.

And he brought back all the goods,.... Taken from Sodom and Gomorrah, Genesis 14:11,
and also brought again his brother Lot; his brother's son, Genesis 14:12, for whose sake chiefly he engaged in this enterprise: and his goods; money, cattle, &c.
and the women also, and the people; not only that belonged to Lot, but to Sodom and Gomorrah, who had been taken and carried captive; these were all rescued and brought back by Abram, see Genesis 14:21;

His brother Lot - That is, his kinsman.

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