Genesis Chapter 14 verse 4 Holy Bible
Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
read chapter 14 in ASV
For twelve years they were under the rule of Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they put off his control.
read chapter 14 in BBE
Twelve years had they served Chedorlaomer; and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
read chapter 14 in DARBY
Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
read chapter 14 in KJV
Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
read chapter 14 in WBT
Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.
read chapter 14 in WEB
twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and the thirteenth year they rebelled.
read chapter 14 in YLT
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - Twelve years - dating from the commencement of his reign (Murphy) - they served - and paid tribute (cf. 2 Kings 18:7) - Chedorlaomer. If the king of Elam was a Shemite prince, this was m accordance with the Noachic prophecy (Genesis 9:26); but according to the monuments the Elamits dynasty was Turanian. And in the thirteenth year - during the whole of the thirteenth year (vide Ewald's 'Hebrews Synt.,' ยง 300, a; cf. Ver. 5) - they rebelled, or had rebelled.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) They served.--That is, paid a yearly tribute, that they might be exempt from Chedorlaomer's marauding expeditions (see 2Kings 18:7). There must, therefore, have been envoys going from time to time to and from the Jordan valley to Shinar.
