Genesis 14:15

14:15 Then, during the night, ¹  Abram ²  divided his forces ³  against them and defeated them. He chased them as far as Hobah, which is north ⁴  of Damascus.

Genesis 14:1

The Blessing of Victory for God’s People

14:1 At that time ⁵  Amraphel king of Shinar, ⁶  Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations ⁷ 

Genesis 11:24

11:24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.

Isaiah 7:8

7:8 For Syria’s leader is Damascus,

and the leader of Damascus is Rezin.

Within sixty-five years Ephraim will no longer exist as a nation. ⁸ 

¹ tn The Hebrew text simply has “night” as an adverbial accusative.

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “he divided himself…he and his servants.”

⁴ tn Heb “left.” Directions in ancient Israel were given in relation to the east rather than the north.

⁵ tn The sentence begins with the temporal indicator וַיְהִי (vayÿhi) followed by “in the days of.”

⁶ sn Shinar (also in v. 9) is the region of Babylonia.

⁷ tn Or “king of Goyim.” The Hebrew term גּוֹיִם (goyim) means “nations,” but a number of modern translations merely transliterate the Hebrew (cf. NEB “Goyim”; NIV, NRSV “Goiim”).

⁸ tn Heb “Ephraim will be too shattered to be a nation”; NIV “to be a people.”