Abraham’s Clash with the Four Kings

Abraham, the saint of outstanding meekness, takes the offensive against the nucleus of the world-power having set up its kingdom in the precincts of the prom­ised land. The events leading up to this struggle are found in the fourteenth chapter of the book of Genesis. It appears that twelve years previous Chedorlaomer in alliance with three other kings has successfully waged war against the five kings of the vale of Siddim and had reduced them to the status of vassal kings. The names we read in...