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How did Abraham rescue Lot after eastern kings attacked Sodom and Gomorrah?
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Sodom and Gomorrah
Landscape with the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, oil on wood by Joachim Patinir, c. 1520; in the collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Upon hearing that a coalition of eastern kings had pillaged Sodom and Gomorrah and taken his nephew Lot captive, Abraham organized a rescue mission. He gathered a force of 318 men from his own household and successfully defeated the Mesopotamian coalition led by Chedorlaomer. Through this military action, Abraham was able to rescue Lot, recover the looted goods, and liberate the other people who had been taken from the towns.123