Identifier: pictorialbibleco00cobb (find matches)
Title: The pictorial Bible and commentator: presenting the great truths of God's word in the most simple, pleasing, affectionate, and instructive manner
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Cobbin, Ingram, 1777-1851 March, Daniel, 1816-1909 Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893 Stretton, Hesba, 1832-1911
Subjects: Jesus Christ John, the Apostle, Saint Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia (etc.) Bradley, Garretson & co. Columbus, Ohio (etc.) W. Garretson & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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keof peace: and he told him, if he would go to the country on the left hand,then he would go to the right; or if he went to the right hand, then he would go to the left Battle of the Kings, and Lot taken Prisoner,, Genesis xiv. 8-12. TTTE have here an account of the first war that we read of in Scripture. Chedorlaomer was king of Persia, which was in old times called Elam. He was not content with what he had, but had probably beaten five other kings not so strong as he, and had made them pay him some money and goods every year, to keep their crowns. After he had done so for twelve years, they .thought they were strong enough to beat him, and so they would pay the money and goods no longer. The king of Elam, or Persia, did not like to lose their tribute, or what they paid him;so he asked the king of Shinar, or Chaldea, and two other kings, to join him, and go and help him to subdue these people. They met in a plain, or large piece of flat ground, and there they fought. The king of Elam, or
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Image name: Valley of Salt, between Canaan and Edom. 61 62 Bible and Commentator. Persia, conquered, or beat them, and they all ran away. Among those that were beaten was the king of Sodom, and his city was entered, and all that was worth having was taken away; and Lot, having gone to live there, lost all that he had, and was carried off to be made a slave of with all his family. A wretched condition poor Lot was in now! This came from choosing to go and live among people that did not fear God, and that, as we shall soon learn, were noted for being wicked. One of the people of Sodom escaped, and made haste to Abram, and told him what had become of Lot. Abram pitied his poor nephew, and resolved to save him. So he took all his men, three hundred and eighteen in number, and divided them into several parts, that he might come upon the enemy on all sides; and overtaking them at night, he took them by surprise, defeated and routed them, and brought back Lot, and his goods,and the women also, and the people. And now the king of Sodom, hearing of what Ab

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