“People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” – Richard Grenier, 1993 Washington Times, paraphrasing George Orwell.
In Genesis Chapter 14, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were overrun by enemies. Everyone who lived through the attack, men and women, were taken prisoner and led away. One of those individuals was a man named Lot.
Lot, as it so happened, had an uncle who had become a very famous man, Abraham. Someone who knew of Lot’s connection to Abraham went and told him what had happened. When he did, Abraham responded.
Genesis 14:14-16 says, “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. And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.”
Abraham and 318 dangerous men risked their lives, beat down the bad guys and saved the day.