Tags: Monarch.
In the Tanakh or Old Testament Amraphel was a king of Shinar (Sumer / Senaar) in Genesis xiv.1 and 9 who invaded the west along with Chedorlaomer king of Elam and others and defeated Sodom and the other Cities of the Plain in the Battle of the Vale of Siddim.Beginning with E. Schrader (Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament vol II (1888) pp 299ff) this king was usually associated with Hammurabi who ruled Babylonia from 1792 BC until his death in 1750 BC.