Jamin Bradley

If you wanted to prove your strength in the ancient world of the Bible, you might start by taking out some giants. Perhaps that’s what King Chedorlaomer thought when he rose up and defeated several giant clans. After all, several kings and kingdoms that had long served him started rebelling against him, so such a proof of power might have helped to put them all back in a place of servitude.

These conquests eventually led to Sodom and Gomorrah being conquered and ransacked, causing Lot, Abraham’s nephew, to become a political prisoner. Abraham would not have this, so he created an army of 318 men under his care and set out to free Lot and the rest of the captives. This sounds a bit ridiculous since Abraham has appeared to us as nothing more than a wandering farmer, but he successfully completed his mission. King Chedorlaomer, the giant slayer, had been defeated by a random farmer.