Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 14:10
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Genesis14:10
10. And the Vale of Siddim was full of slimepits : And the Kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled and fell there: And they that remained, fled to the Mountain.
And therefore chosen by those five Kings for the place of Battle, that their Adver[illegible: 1+ letters]ries being ignorant of the place might unawares fall into those pits, which they by their knowledge of it, thought to escape.
(i. e.) Their Armies: a figurative speech frequent in Scripture and other Authours: For their persons escaped, see ver. 17.
Either 1. Fell into the pits which they designed for others. Or rather 2. Were slain; as this word is oft used, as Ios. 8. 24, 25. Iudg. 8. 10. and 12. 6. and here too, for those that fell are here opposed to those that remained.
Marginal references: Heb. pits pits.
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