Chedorlaomer (Hebrew: כְדָרְלָעומֶר; LXX Chodollogomor) is the name of the main figure in a narrative within Genesis concerning a war in Canaan. In the narrative (Genesis 14), Chedorlaomer is described as a king of Elam, who made conquests as far west as Canaan and exercised supremacy over its southeastern part. After paying tribute to him for twelve years, in the following year the local kings of the cities of the plain rebelled, but the year after the rebellion Chedorlaomer and three allies / vassals defeated the rebellion.