The eastern campaign

In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings with him strike the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim, and the Horites in the hill country of Seir as far as El-paran, then turn back to En-mishpat, that is Kadesh, and strike the country of the Amalekite and the Amorites of Hazazon-tamar. BSB has “Rephaites,” “Zuzites,” and “Emites,” and “the whole territory of the Amalekites.” The Greek renders the Rephaim as “the giants,” and En-mishpat as “the spring of judgment.” The peoples of 14:5 are named again in Gen 14:5 → Deut 2:10–11; Kadesh in Gen 14:7 → Gen 16:14. The wording is in The campaign, the tar pits and Lot taken; the Greek at these verses is in LXX Gen 14:1–12: king of nations, the salt valley and the giants. Identifications and the route remain open; they are treated as background in The four kings, their realms, and Salem: places and persons in Genesis 14, and no ancient Near Eastern text is cited or compared here. Skinner holds the route “quite irreconcilable with the alleged object of the campaign”; that view is his, and no ruling is given.