Genesis 14:14 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 14:14

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.

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ASV

And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

WEB

And when Abram heard that his relative had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men born in his household, and they set out in pursuit as far as Dan.

YLT

And Abram heareth that his brother hath been taken captive, and he draweth out his trained domestics, three hundred and eighteen, and pursueth unto Dan.

DBT

And Abram heard that his brother was taken captive; and he led out his trained [servants], born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued [them] as far as Dan.

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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31 verses on the floor

Judges 18:29
And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.
Genesis 15:3
And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
Genesis 12:5
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
Ecclesiastes 3:8
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

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This he did as a king, teaching us to do good and to communicate, and to be given to hospitality, according to our ability; and representing the spiritual provisions of strength and comfort which Christ has laid up for us in the covenant of grace for our refreshment, when we are wearied with our spiritual conflicts.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants--domestic slaves, such as are common in Eastern countries still and are considered and treated as members of the family.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H321113× in canon H761747× in canon H8761× in canon H183570× in canon H8083109× in canon H7291143× in canon

◈Gematriacontested · tier B

- **verse:rev.13.18** — TIER-A historical-mainstream. 666 = Nero Caesar: Greek Neron Kaisar transliterated to Hebrew consonants nrwn qsr (50+200+6+50+100+60+200) = 666; the well-attested 616 variant (P115, Oxyrhynchus 3rd c.; known to Irenaeus, Against Heresies 5.30.1 c. AD 180) = the Latin spelling nrw qsr = 616, and one solution explains both readings. Majority critical view (Fritzsche/Benary/Hitzig/Reuss 1830s -> Bauckham -> Aune). Hays: availability (Hebrew-literate audience), historical plausibility (Nero the persecutor + redivivus legend), history of interpretation, satisfaction (accounts for 666 AND 616). tier=historical; majority-not-unanimous. _(source: Richard Bauckham, The Climax of Prophecy (T&T Clark, 1993) ch.8; David Aune, Revelation 6-16 (WBC 52B, 1998); Rev 13:18 (KJV/WEB/ASV, PD))_ - **verse:rev.13.18** — TIER-A. The Nero gematria and the eighth-king riddle ('the beast that was, and is not, and is to come... an eighth', 17:11) point at the same figure via the Nero redivivus expectation. Hays: thematic coherence, historical plausibility (redivivus legend is 1st-c. attested). tier=historical (Nero frame); redivivus linkage well-attested but interpretive. _(source: Bauckham, The Climax of Prophecy (1993); Aune, Revelation 17-22 (WBC 52C, 1998); Rev 17:11 (KJV/WEB/ASV))_ - **verse:gen.14.14** — TIER-A documented tradition. Rabbinic gematria (b. Nedarim 32a; Genesis Rabbah 43:2) reads Abraham's 318 servants as Eliezer alone: aleph-lamed-yod-ayin-zayin-resh = 1+30+10+70+7+200 = 318; Eliezer of Damascus is named two verses later (15:2). Checkable in the floor letter-data. Hays: history of interpretation (Talmudic), availability, satisfaction (name-value matches the count). tier=historical; present as 'what the rabbis did', NOT 'what Moses encoded'. _(source: b. Nedarim 32a (Sefaria); Genesis Rabbah 43:2; Theopolis Institute, 'Abram's 318 Men' (theopolisinstitute.com); Gen 14:14/15:2 (KJV/WEB/ASV))_ - **verse:gen.14.14** — TIER-A patristic interpretation. Epistle of Barnabas 9:7-8 (c. AD 70-130) reads 318 in Greek numerals as TIH: IH (18) = first two letters of IESOUS (Jesus), T (300) = shape of the cross -- the earliest Christian gematria on record. Hays: history of interpretation (2nd-c. Christian), historical plausibility; satisfaction weak (depends on the Greek numeral convention, not the Hebrew text). tier=historical as attributed interpretation; explicit caveat that it is a USE of the number, not authorial/Mosaic intent. _(source: Epistle of Barnabas 9:7-8 (earlychristianwritings.com, PD); Theopolis Institute, 'Abram's 318 Men')_ - **verse:mat.1.17** — TIER-A authorial device. Matthew's 3x14 pivots on David (named 1:6); David D-W-D = 4+6+4 = 14 is the leading explanation of the schematic count, with three kings (Ahaziah/Joash/Amaziah) and Jehoiakim omitted to hold the 14s (checkable against 1 Chr 3). Hays: volume (number thrice-stated), thematic coherence (genealogy of 'the son of David'), history of interpretation. tier=historical device; the David-gematria REASON flagged as leading-but-contested. _(source: W. D. Davies & Dale C. Allison, Matthew Vol.1 (ICC, 1988) on 1:17; Matt 1:1-17 / 1 Chr 3 (KJV/WEB/ASV))_ - **concept:gematria** — TIER-A framing / the honesty rail. In its own tradition gematria is derash (homiletic decoration), ranked below peshat (plain sense); Baraita of 32 Rules lists it among the middot. 'The secret things belong to the LORD... but the things revealed belong to us and our children' anchors the doctrine that meaning rests on the plain text and hidden numeric layers carry no doctrine. tier=historical framing. _(source: Baraita of 32 Rules; Encyclopaedia Judaica 'Gematria' (encyclopedia.com); Deut 29:29 (KJV/WEB/ASV))_ - **verse:gen.1.1** — TIER-C speculative-modern -- SHIP ONLY WITH CRITIQUE. CLAIM (Vernon Jenkins): Masoretic letter-value of Gen 1:1 = 2701 = 37x73, the 73rd triangular number, drawable as a triangle; 37/73 mirror primes (true, verifiable arithmetic). CRITIQUE: look-elsewhere effect at maximum -- unlimited 'remarkable' properties (triangular/hexagonal/star/prime-mirror/digit-sum), no pre-registered failure condition, no control corpus, no peer review; the same figurate 'miracles' appear on secular sentences. Edition-sensitive (Koren vs Leningrad). tier=speculative; real number, real geometry, unreal inference. NOT for the reading rail. _(source: Vernon Jenkins, 'Aspects of a Miracle' (whatabeginning.com); critique -- codes-numerics brief section 5; CARM, 'Genesis 1:1 and gematria' (carm.org))_ - **verse:rev.13.18** — TIER-C critique entry (the inoculating counter-example). The 'number -> modern name = 666' method has 'identified' dozens of Antichrists across the centuries: Vicarius Filii Dei (the papacy), Luther, Napoleon, Kaiser Wilhelm, Hitler, Kissinger, Reagan, Gorbachev, and more. A method that fits forty different answers is the problem, not the evidence. tier=speculative; present as the teaching tool that separates historical gematria (what ancient readers DID) from modern numerology (number -> new revelation). _(source: codes-numerics brief section 4.2; Encyclopaedia Judaica 'Gematria'; standard Revelation commentaries surveying the identification history)_ - **verse:jhn.21.11** — TIER-C -- SHIP ONLY WITH CRITIQUE. CLAIM: the 153 fish have drawn gematria/figurate readings for millennia -- Augustine: 153 = triangular number of 17 (1+2+...+17, verifiable); Theomatics (Del Washburn): 'fish' phrases cluster near 153. CRITIQUE: flexible phrase boundaries + tolerance windows make such clustering unremarkable and it is reproduced in secular text (Glasser). tier=speculative; present the ancient figurate observation as a checkable curiosity, the Theomatic inference with its control-text refutation. _(source: Augustine, Tractates on John 122; Del Washburn, Theomatics (1977); critique -- codes-numerics brief section 3; Jhn 21:11 (KJV/WEB/ASV))_ - **verse:est.5.4** — TIER-C -- SHIP ONLY WITH CRITIQUE. CLAIM: Bullinger (Companion Bible App.60) finds initial/final letters of four phrases spelling YHWH forwards/backwards in Esther, a book that never names God. CRITIQUE: the letters are where he says, but the SELECTION of which four phrases (out of thousands) is post-hoc; acrostic-adjacent, not gematria proper, not demonstrable. tier=speculative; present as devotional curiosity with the selection-effect caveat visible. _(source: E. W. Bullinger, Companion Bible Appendix 60 (PD); critique -- codes-numerics brief section 7.2; Esther (KJV/WEB/ASV))_

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

GEN 14:14JDG 18:29 JOS 19:47
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
GEN 14:14DEU 34:1 NUM 27:12
GEN 14:14DEU 34:1 DEU 32:49
GEN 14:14JDG 18:29 1KI 15:20
GEN 14:14DEU 34:1 REV 21:10
GEN 14:14GEN 15:3 PRO 29:21
GEN 14:14DEU 34:1 EZE 40:2
GEN 14:14GEN 15:3 ECC 2:7

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