Season 4 Episode 3 – Genesis 14: Cotton-Eyed Joe!!

Coming Up! - 0:00

Intro - 0:53

Jasmine’s Tea! - 3:32

A’ight So Boom! - 8:10

Read Genesis 14 1-3  - 12:02

• Setting the Chess Board

• Black Pieces

• Amraphel king of Shinar

• Arioch king of Ellasar

• Cherdorlaomer king of Elam

• Tidal king of Goiim

• White Pieces

• Bera king of Sodom

• Birsha king of Gomorrah

• Shinab king of Admah

• Shemeber king of Zeboiim

• King of Bela (Zoar)

• Where it’s going down

• Joined Forces

• Valley of Siddim (the Salt Sea)

Read Genesis 14 4-7 - 16:29

• They were all under Chedorlaomer

• Year by year breakdown

• Years 1-12 serving Chedorlaomer

• Year 13 there were some who rebelled

• Year 14 Chedorlaomer had some victories over stand-alone kings

• Rephaim in Ashteroth-kirithaim

• Horites in the hill country of Seir to El-paran border of the wilderness

• En-misphat (Kadesh) defeated the Amalakites

• Hazazon-tamar the Amorites

Read Genesis 14 8-12 - 24:37

• Wait 4 (black pieces) against 5 (white pieces)

• There were Bitumen Pits (What are these)

• The Kings on the side of Sodom and Gomorrah were getting beat

• They Fled

• Some fell into the pits

• The rest fled into the Hill Country

• Took the Spoil

• All the Possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah

• All their provisions

• They Left

• And Then Some

• They took Lot

• They took Lot’s possessions

• They Left

Read Genesis 14 13-16 - 31:50

• Word gets back to Abram (the Hebrew)

• Abram moves when he hears his kinsman had been taken captive

• Abram had trained men tho?

• 318 of them

• Pursued as far of Dan (giving a location, not a place during that time?)

• Trained to fight by night

• Brought back all the stuff

Read Genesis 14 17-20 - 48:29

• Er’ybody was defeated (Chedorlaomer and the kings with him)

• Met the king of Sodom in the Valley of Shevah

• Melchizedek comes on the scene (Where did he come from?)

• This is the King of Salem

• Brought out Bred and Wine

• Priest of the Most High God

• Pronounced a Blessing on Abram

• Blessed God

• Abram gave him a tenth of everything (huh?)

• Questions about Melchizedek

• Where did he come from?

• Why did Abram give him a tenth?

• What does it mean that he gave a blessing to Abram?

Read Genesis 14 21-24 - 1:14:45

• On offer was made (king of Sodom)

• But - opposed to the kings offer

• Lifted my hand to the LORD

• LORD, described as God Most High

• LORD, identified as Possessor of heaven and earth

• Would take nothing

• So you can’t say you made me rich

• Will take the following:

• What the men have eaten

• The men who went with me

• Give some to Aner, Eschol and Mamre (Bless those who Bless you)

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