OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 14:7

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They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.

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Verse 7. Misphat, or of judgment and contradiction, because there the Hebrews contended with Moses and Aaron: it was afterwards called Cadez. Numbers 20:11.—Amalecites, that is which they afterwards possessed; for as yet Amelec was unborn. Calmet. 36:16. Menochius.—Amorrheans, to the west of Sodom. Calmet.

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