biblep2.blogspot.com The Arabic Translation The image describes "Lot " escaping from the burned cities Sodom and Gomorrah .
The war revealed to us that there were other nations who worshiped God , like the nation of "Melchizedek" , or the nation of Salem Kingdom in Genesis 14:18 , that war revealed to us How "Melchizedek" was advanced than "Abram" to know the living God , he used the wine and the bread on his alter instead of the bloody sacrifice ,Did he know something about the sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross afterward by the spirit of the prophetic proclamation ? , We can not assure that , but we assure that "Abram" released that "Melchizedek" is more greater than him ,even the Mosaic inspiration recorded that in Genesis 14:18,19 ,"Melchizedek " was a priest of "The most High God " , and that his blessing to "Abram" reflected the power of the authurity that he have accepted from God ,when he said " Blessed be Abram of the most high God " .
When "Abram" gave "Melchizedek " the tenth of every thing it was a clear confession that "Melchizedek "was advanced than him before God , The writer of the epistle of the Hebrews explained that afterwords .
In concern of the kingdom of Salem or Shalem , there are two proposal places to suggest its original site , the first one in Samaria ,the other second suggested one is in the eastern of Naples , but while they were building the City of David , they called it "Jerusalem "because of their admiration with the old Salem ( the northern people of the Kingdom of Israel pronounced it using the letter "S" , but the southern people pronounced it "SH" , after the division of the Kingdom it became the capital of the sothern kingdom "Judea" ,so most people till today prefer "SH" ) .
Salem or Shalem means Peace, some scholars suggested that "Abram" was the first one who called it by that name due to the victory over the invaders which established the peace for him and the surrouynded people and "Lot"'s family .But its name was "Jebus" .
One person escaped from the war and told "Abram" that "Lot" his brother has taken as a captive (Genesis 14:14) , the titles of Father , Mother ,Son , Daughter ,Sister , Brother were commonly used at that time due to their general meaning not as we use them today .
Using slaves as soldiers in the war revealed the richness of "Abram", He possessed 318 slaves who were prepared to win in the attacking , their numbers and their quality reflected that "Abram" was very rich ,these slaves were included in the heritage of "Abram " to his legal inheritors , according to their legal traditions at Abram's times , the free born sons only who could possess and administrate that wealth , so he was anxious for he hadn't that sons yet .
God promised him to give him seed , when "Abram" offered his sacrifices ,The caw , the goat and the pigeon and dove , when he listened to the voice of God who were walking through the sacrifices ,he feared , but God promised him to release his promise to him , to give him seed , that He would expel some nations before his offspring ,although He knew their dishonest deeds (Genesis 15:12-21) , please refer to that blog to know them in details biblicalg.blogspot.com .
"Lot" departed "Abram" his uncle , and went to Sodom and Gomorrah ,but God gave "Abram" instead of "Lot" mighty Alliances with a deeper Divine promise , and a son from ":Hagar" and on the plain of Memrah he met God in the shape of man with two persons or angels ,he invited them to his tent , they talked together about "Isac" his son in future , and about Sodom and Gomorrah , "Abram changed to be "Abraham" the father of nations ,"Sarai" changed to be "Sara" .
At the same place "Abraham" accepted the covenant of circumcision ,he and his son "Ismael " and all the men , before the birth of "Isac".
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