Teks -- Genesis 14:4 (NET)

14:4 For twelve years they had served Kedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Gen 14:4 - Twelve years they served him

The Sodomites were the posterity of Canaan, whom Noah had pronounced a servant to Shem, from whom Elam descended. Thus soon did that prophecy begin to be fulfilled. In the thirteenth year, beginning to be weary of their subjection, they rebelled - Denied their tribute, and attempted to shake off the yoke.

TSK: Gen 14:4 - they served // they rebelled

they served : Gen 9:25, Gen 9:26

they rebelled : Eze 17:15

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Gen 14:4

He was their lord, either,

1. By inheritance, as the issue of Elam, Shem’ s son, Gen 10:22 . Or,

2. By conquest, having subdued those people in a former war, which Josephus speaks of.

Haydock: Gen 14:4 - Served

Served. Thus Noe's prediction began to be fulfilled, as Elam was the eldest son of Sem, to whose posterity Chanaan should be slaves, chap. ix. 26.

Gill: Gen 14:4 - Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer // and in the thirteenth year they rebelled

Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer,.... King of Elam, who was of the race of Shem, and so the prophecy of Noah began to be fulfilled, that Canaan should be servant to Shem, Gen 9:26; for the kings of Sodom, &c. and their subjects, were of the race of Ham in the line of Canaan, who had by violence seized on that part of the earth which was allotted to the sons of Shem, and therefore Chedorlaomer being a descendant of his claimed his right, and made them tributary to him, which they were for the space of twelve years:

and in the thirteenth year they rebelled; refused homage to Chedorlaomer and to pay tribute to him.