Chedorlaomer
Sign in to savethumb|Battle of Abraham against Chedorlaomer by Cornelis Massijs, 1545 Chedorlaomer, also spelled Kedorlaomer, is a king of Elam mentioned in Genesis 14 in the Hebrew Bible, which contains an account of the Battle of Siddim. Genesis portrays him as allied with three other kings, campaigning against five Canaanite city-states in response to an uprising during the lifetime of Abraham.
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- Etymology
- Background
- Chedorlaomer's reign
- Chedorlaomer's campaigns
- Chedorlaomer's defeat
- Historical identification
- Notes
- References
thumb|Battle of Abraham against Chedorlaomer by Cornelis Massijs, 1545 Chedorlaomer, also spelled Kedorlaomer, is a king of Elam mentioned in Genesis 14 in the Hebrew Bible, which contains an account of the Battle of Siddim. Genesis portrays him as allied with three other kings, campaigning against five Canaanite city-states in response to an uprising during the lifetime of Abraham.
==Etymology== The name Chedorlaomer is associated with familiar Elamite components, such as kudur, "servant", and Lagamal, an important goddess in the Elamite pantheon. The Jewish Encyclopedia states that, apart from the fact that Chedorlaomer can be identified as a proper Elamite compound, all else is matter of controversy and "the records give only the rather negative result that from Babylonian and Elamite documents nothing definite has been learned of Chedorlaomer".