A quick look at a map shows that Abram’s men marched more than one hundred miles north to the Phoenician city of Laish (see Judges 18:29), later renamed Dan. This city “guarded a major trading route running between Damascus and Tyre, and was therefore an important commercial center.”[14] Kedorlaomer’s army probably thought they were home free when they bivouacked in the valley outside the city. They had humiliated their opposition throughout Canaan, so they never suspected a nighttime raid.
