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After their Transjordan sweep Chedorlaomers four-king coalition turned northwest and smote "all the country of the Amalekites and also the Amorites that dwelt in Hazazon-tamar" — the En-gedi oasis on the western shore of the Dead Sea.
Genesis 14:7 records the final stage of Chedorlaomer's great campaign before the eastern coalition turned south to attack the Cities of the Plain: "And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazazon-tamar." 2 Chronicles 20:2 explicitly identifies Hazazon-tamar as En-gedi, the great oasis on the western shore of the Dead Sea where palm groves grew (the name means "pruning of the palm"). The strike at Hazazon-tamar set the stage for the final assault on Sodom and Gomorrah.
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