King CHEDORLAOMER

Male - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name CHEDORLAOMER  
    Prefix King 
    Gender Male 
    _UID 16EC739E21FC63428B9634E78F469B60E1E5 
    Death Yes, date unknown 
    Notes 
    • Personal name meaning, handful of sheaves. King of Elam who joined coalition of kings against kings of Sodom and Gomorrah, leading to Abraham’s involvement and victory (Gen 14:1). His Elamite name means, son of La’gamal, (a god). He apparently led the eastern coalition. He does not appear in the fragmentary Elamite records known today, so nothing else is known except what Genesis (Gen 14) records.

      (Khudur-Lagamar of the inscriptions), king of Elam. Many centuries before the age of Abraham, Canaan and even the Sinaitic peninsula had been conquered by Babylonian kings, and in the time of Abraham himself Babylonia was ruled by a dynasty which claimed sovereignity over Syria and Palestine. The kings of the dynasty bore names which were not Babylonian, but at once South Arabic and Hebrew. The most famous king of the dynasty was Khammu-rabi, who united Babylonia under one rule, and made Babylon its capital. When he ascended the throne, the country was under the suzerainty of the Elamites, and was divided into two kingdoms, that of Babylon (the Biblical Shinar) and that of Larsa (the Biblical Ellasar). The king of Larsa was Eri-Aku (the servant of the moongod), the son of an Elamite prince, KudurMabug, who is entitled the father of the land of the Amorites. A recently discovered tablet enumerates among the enemies of Khammu-rabi, Kudur-Lagamar (the servant of the goddess Lagamar) or Chedorlaomer, Eri-Aku or Arioch, and Tudkhula or Tidal. Khammu-rabi, whose name is also read Ammi-rapaltu or Amraphel by some scholars, succeeded in overcoming Eri-Aku and driving the Elamites out of Babylonia. Assur-bani-pal, the last of the Assyrian conquerors, mentions in two inscriptions that he took Susa 1635 years after Kedor-nakhunta, king of Elam, had conquered Babylonia. It was in the year 660 B.C. that Assur-bani-pal took Susa.

      chedorlaomer (5)

      Gen 14:1, Gen 14:4-5 (2), Gen 14:9, Gen 14:17
    Person ID I1356  z-Bible Genealogy
    Last Modified 24 Dec 2007