Genesis 14:13
“How was it that the patriarch had no knowledge that such forces of war were on the rampage? Perhaps he chanced to be at a great distance from the conflict and for that reason knew nothing of it. "Now, someone came and told Abraham the traveler," the text says, to remind us that he got the news on his return from Chald…”
Source: Septuagint
13And one of them that had been rescued came and told Abram the Hebrew; and he dwelt by the oak of Mamre the Amorite the brother of Eshcol, and the brother of Aner, who were confederates with Abram.
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11And they took all the cavalry of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and departed.
12And they took also Lot the son of Abram’s brother, and his baggage, and departed, for he dwelt in Sodom.
— Genesis 14:13 —
14And Abram having heard that Lot his nephew had been taken captive, numbered his own homeborn servants three hundred and eighteen, and pursued after them to Dan.
15And he came upon them by night, he and his servants, and he smote them and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is on the left of Damascus.