Chedorlaomer

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Chedorlaomer
     (= Khudur-Lagamar of the inscriptions), king of Elam. Many
     centuries before the age of Abraham, Canaan and even the
     Sinaitic peninsula had been conquered by Babylonian kings, and
     in the time of Abraham himself Babylonia was ruled by a dynasty
     which claimed sovereignity over Syria and Palestine. The kings


     of the dynasty bore names which were not Babylonian, but at once
     South Arabic and Hebrew. The most famous king of the dynasty was
     Khammu-rabi, who united Babylonia under one rule, and made
     Babylon its capital. When he ascended the throne, the country
     was under the suzerainty of the Elamites, and was divided into
     two kingdoms, that of Babylon (the Biblical Shinar) and that of
     Larsa (the Biblical Ellasar). The king of Larsa was Eri-Aku
     ("the servant of the moon-god"), the son of an Elamite prince,
     Kudur-Mabug, who is entitled "the father of the land of the
     Amorites." A recently discovered tablet enumerates among the
     enemies of Khammu-rabi, Kudur-Lagamar ("the servant of the
     goddess Lagamar") or Chedorlaomer, Eri-Aku or Arioch, and
     Tudkhula or Tidal. Khammu-rabi, whose name is also read
     Ammi-rapaltu or Amraphel by some scholars, succeeded in
     overcoming Eri-Aku and driving the Elamites out of Babylonia.
     Assur-bani-pal, the last of the Assyrian conquerors, mentions in
     two inscriptions that he took Susa 1635 years after
     Kedor-nakhunta, king of Elam, had conquered Babylonia. It was in
     the year B.C. 660 that Assur-bani-pal took Susa.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Chedorlaomer, roundness of a sheaf