What is happening here?
Genesis 14 describes a regional war in which Lot is captured with Sodom’s population and goods. Abram mobilizes trained servants, pursues the captors, rescues Lot, and returns. Melchizedek king of Salem, priest of the most high God, blesses Abram, and Abram gives him tithes. Abram then refuses the king of Sodom’s goods so that no man can claim to have made Abram rich.
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