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These last five kings joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
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In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings who were his allies came and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
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Kedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of nations, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar. Four kings fought against five.
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Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them, but some survivors fled to the hills.
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The four victorious kings took all the possessions and food of Sodom and Gomorrah and left.
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After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet Abram in the Valley of Shaveh (known as the King’s Valley).
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I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.
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I will bless her and will give you a son through her. I will bless her and she will become a mother of nations. Kings of countries will come from her!”
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Then God said to him, “I am the Sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation—even a company of nations—will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!
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These were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king ruled over the Israelites:
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They killed the kings of Midian in addition to those slain—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—five Midianite kings. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.
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So at that time we took the land of the two Amorite kings in the Transjordan from Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon
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I also commanded Joshua at the same time, “You have seen everything the Lord your God did to these two kings; he will do the same to all the kingdoms where you are going.
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They possessed his land and that of King Og of Bashan—both of whom were Amorite kings in the Transjordan, to the east.
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He will hand over their kings to you, and you will erase their very names from memory. Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them.
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Provision for Kingship
When you come to the land the Lord your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say, “I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,”
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The Lord will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.
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For we heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you left Egypt and how you annihilated the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, on the other side of the Jordan.
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When all the Amorite kings on the west side of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how the Lord had dried up the water of the Jordan before the Israelites while they crossed, they lost their courage and could not even breathe for fear of the Israelites.
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The Gibeonites Deceive Israel
When the news reached all the kings on the west side of the Jordan—in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the Mediterranean coast as far as Lebanon (including the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)—
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and all he did to the two Amorite kings on the other side of the Jordan—King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan in Ashtaroth.
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So the five Amorite kings (the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon) and all their troops gathered together and advanced. They deployed their troops and fought against Gibeon.
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The men of Gibeon sent this message to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, “Do not abandon your subjects! Come up here quickly and rescue us! Help us! For all the Amorite kings living in the hill country are attacking us.”
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The five Amorite kings ran away and hid in the cave at Makkedah.
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Joshua was told, “The five kings have been found hiding in the cave at Makkedah.”