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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 14:21 - 14:21
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the king of Sodom said ... Give me the persons - According to the war customs still existing among the Arab tribes, Abram might have retained the recovered goods, and his right was acknowledged by the king of Sodom. But with honest pride, and a generosity unknown in that part of the world, he replied with strong phraseology common to the East, “I have lifted up mine hand” [that is, I have sworn] unto the Lord that I will not take from a thread even to a sandal-thong, and that that I will not take any thing that [is] thine, lest thou shouldst say, I have made Abram rich” [Gen 14:22, Gen 14:23].