II. ARIOCH, King of Pontus, or, according to the Hebrew, King of Ellafar; or according to the Paraphrast Jonathan and the Syriac King of Telaffar. Now Telaffar was a Province beyond the Euphrates, not far from Armenia; for Ifaiah Ifai. xxxvii. 1, 2.speaks of the children of Eden that were at Telaffar. Arioch was in league with Chedorlaomer, and join’d with him in war against the Kings of Sodom and Gomorrha. See Genef. xiv. 1, 2, 3, &c.
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