The Four Kings Read as the Four Kingdoms and the Footsteps of Messiah

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 72:2

Another interpretation: "And it came to pass in the days of Amrafel king of Shinar," this is Babylon; "and Arioch king of Ellasar," this is Greece; "Chedorlaomer king of Elam," this is Media; "and Tidal king of nations," this is the fourth kingdom, which conscripts recruits from all the nations. If you see kingdoms provoking one another, look for the footsteps of the Messiah. Know this for yourself, for so we find in the days of Abraham: because these kingdoms provoked one another, greatness came to Abraham.

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