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inhabited" (ha. 45: 18). Thus when men fell away fromGod soon after the flood (as typified by Lot separatingfrom Abraham and pitching his tent toward the sinful citySodom),'God reminded Himself of his own oath-boundcovenant to bless the world in due time by reclaiming it,from its sinful condition through His Seed,Gm. 14: 1-12.' And it canle to pass in the days of Amraphel ki ofShinar. Ar.ioch kinaof Ellwr, Chedo~laomer king of Elam. and%dalkipg of natrons. 2 tht tksr made war w~th Bera king of SO~UIII and withBinha king of komorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and ~herneb;r king ofZebiim, and the kin8 of Hela, whtch 8s Zoar. 3 All these were joinedtogether in the vale of Siddim. which is the salt sea. 4 Twelve yearsthey served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rehclled. 5And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaotner, and the kings that werewith him. and smote the Rephaitns in Ashteroth Karnaim, and tbe Zuzimsin Ham; and the Emims in Shaveth K~riathaim. 6 And the Horites intheir Mount Seir, into El-paran, which is by the wilderness. 7 And theyreturned.. and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all thecountry of the Arnalekites.and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.8 And there wctlt out the long of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah,and the king of Admah and the king of Zeboiin~, and the kkg ofBela (the same is Zoar : and they joined battle with them in the vale ofShldim : 9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and w~th Titlal kingof nations, and Amraphael king of Shinar, ? ~d Arioch king of EHasar ;four kings mth five. 1x0 And the vale of Sidd.m wasfullof rl~mep~tr ; andthe kings of Sodom'and Gomorrah fled, and kll there ; and they that remainedfled to the mountain. 11 And they took all the g d s of Sodotnand Go~norrah and all their victuals, and went their way. I2 And theytook Lot. ~brkn's brother's mn. rho dwelt in Sodom, a d hi~rootls. anddeparted;The details &f the& verees have 'significance in connectionwith'various features in1God's Plan, the narrative;as a whole is an allegorical outline: of the last portion ofthe'second Dispensation-namely, the period of the,SevenTimes of the Gentiles. Lot here represents n0.t mankindas a whole, but the one representative nation of .Israel,with which God ha4 particular dealings. The four kingswith Chedorlaomer as leader who overthrew Sodom andGomorrah, and Capbured foolish Lot with all his goods,represent the four Gentile universal empires, headed byNebuadnezzar,, who in 606 B.C. overthrew the apostate, I . .':. ; ' ' '.. ., . s, . , .'J :