CHEDORLAOMER, A king of Elam, who. according to Gen. xiv., commered Palestine. but thirteen years later was forced to make an invasion in order to establish his authority. He was accompanied by Amraphel (q.v.) of Shinar, Arioch (q.v.) of Ellasar, amid Tidal of Goyim. Daring conquered the Re phaim, the Zamzummim. the Entim, and the Horites. aml proceeded as far as El Paran, he re turned by way of El Mishpat, slew the Amale kites and the Amorites in llazezon Tamar. and defeated in a pitched battle the five kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admit, Zeboiim, and %oar, but was smitten near Dan by Abram. who rescued his nephew, Lot. The historical character of this narrative cannot be maintained. t'hedorlaomer is indeed a possible Elamitish name, as Kudur occurs in Kudur minehundi and Kadin- naiad:, and Lagainam or Lagamal is the name of an Elamitish goddess. Three cuneiform tablets have been found dating front the early Seleuchl and the Arsaeid periods, in which some scholars have seen a reference to King Kodur Loqnutar, hut the name in the first is only li ado,. K a !iv mal, in the second It r nucb
au mad, and in the third, lindur nuch ( ?) ; the first also has the names Eni Eaku and ndeli nlo, and the second Erick MI. \\len these men lived cannot be determined. An invasion of Palestine by an Elamitish king is not improb alde. Ihit there is as yet no evblenee from the monuments of any of these kings. It is regarded as most probable that the names were found by some Babylonian dew and put into connection on the one band with the symbolical and fictitious names of the kings of the submerged cities (see Sonom): on the other, with Abram. This i(1 rash is supposed to have been written in the Fourth Century n.c., and it is possible that the appendix in which Melchizedek (q.v.) figures is even later. Consult, especially, King. let lets and Inscriptions of Ha m MilrUbi I. (L01111011. 1S9S)