John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 14:12
And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son ,.... The son of Haran, his elder brother, who was now, as the Jews say F24 Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 77. 1. , fifty years of age: who dwelt in Sodom , or near it, in the country adjacent to it, see Genesis 13:12 ; and so being a neighbour of the men of Sodom, and a sojourner among them, he partakes of their punishment; and this was a just correction of him for choosing to dwell among such a people: and they took his goods, and departed... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 14:1-12
We have here an account of the first war that ever we read of in scripture, which (though the wars of the nations make the greatest figure in history) we should not have had the history of if Abram and Lot had not been concerned in it. Now, concerning this war, we may observe, I. The parties engaged in it. The invaders were four kings, two of them no less than kings of Shinar and Elam (that is, Chaldea and Persia), yet probably not the sovereign princes of those great kingdoms in their own... read more