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John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 14:2
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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[That these] made war with Bera king of Sodom, etc.] A city in the plain of Jordan, which with the four following made the Pentapolis, or five cities of the plain. Strabo f956 says, in this place formerly were thirteen cities, the metropolis of which was Sodom, and which yet had remaining a compass of sixty furlongs; according to Dr. Lightfoot f957, it should be placed in the southern extremity of the lake Asphaltites, whereas it is usually set in the maps in the northern bounds of it: and with Birsha king of Gomorrah; another city in the plain of Jordan, called by Solinus f958 Gomorrum: Shinab king of Admah; a third city situated in the same plain: and Shemeber king of Zeboiim; a fourth city of the plain, which seems to have its name from the pleasantness of its situation: and the king of Bela, which is Zoar; so it was afterwards called by Lot, being a little city, (<011920>Genesis 19:20,22); but before, Bela; the name of its king is not mentioned, being a person of no great note and importance, and his city small.
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