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Please understand that boundaries were not only set for Israel, but for all the nations of the earth. They were meant to be honored and not transgressed upon. God is just. He did not allow looting unless the iniquity of a nation was full and they were being judged by Him. It was only then that even the Israelites were allowed to take the spoil.

Greed is not in His character. It is not necessary. “For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the fields are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof” (Psalm 50: 10-12, KJV).

This is the lesson that was given so the Israelites would know how these same “giants” and great nations were conquered by their ancestors in the past. Pay attention as we go back to how Abraham saved Lot from Chedorlaomer and three other kings with their armies, who had just defeated five kings including Sodom and Gomorrah and their armies. After they had pursued and conquered “giants” and “cave dwellers” or Edomites (the descendants of Esau) before them. Abraham defeated them with just his household and his trained servants. Read the whole of chapter 14 in the Book of Genesis for full context.

“In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the [three] kings who were with him attacked and subdued Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriatham, and the Horites in their mountainous country of Seir, as far as El-Paran, which is on the border of the wilderness. Then they turned back and came to Enmishpat (that is, Kadesh), and subdued all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar. Then the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Bella (that is, Zoar) came out; and they joined together for battle with the invading kings in the Valley of Siddim” (Genesis 14: 5-8, AMP).

“Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar (bitumen) pits; and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them. But the remainder [of the kings] who survived fled to the hill country. When Abram heard that his nephew [Lot] had been captured, he armed and led out his trained men, born in his own house, [numbering] three hundred and eighteen, and went in pursuit as far [north] as Dan” (Genesis 14: 10, 14, AMP).

Because of his faith, Abraham was met by and blessed of Melchizedek in the name of God Most High. Upon research, a deeper revelation is given through “Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology”. The willingness in which Abraham acceded to him at this time. Note this verse: “The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou (Jesus Christ) art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek” (Psalm 110: 4, KJV).

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