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After learning that Chedorlaomer has carried his nephew Lot off as a captive Abram musters 318 trained men plus his Amorite allies and chases the four-king coalition by night all the way past Damascus to Hobah recovering Lot and all the captured plunder.
Genesis 14:13-16 narrates Abram's daring rescue mission after Chedorlaomer's coalition carried Lot off from Sodom: "And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan. And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. And he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people." The pursuit covered more than 200 km — one of the longest forced marches in the patriarchal narratives.
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