A military march in (Genesis 14:7) becomes, in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, a moment of temporal vertigo. The verse says the kings returned to En-Mishpat, meaning the spring of judgment, also called Kadesh. The Aramaic will not let that name pass without comment.
The Targum glosses: they came to the place where was rendered the judgment of Mosheh the prophet, to the fountain of the waters of Strife, which is Requam. The reader is suddenly standing in two eras at once. This is the spring where, many centuries from now, Moses will strike the rock at Meribah (Numbers 20:10-13) — the waters of strife, the judgment that will cost Moses his entry to the land.
The Targumist is doing something profound. He is telling you that the landscape of the patriarchs is already marked with the tragedies of their descendants. This is not just a spring where kings refreshed their armies. This is the future site of Moses' failure. The ground remembers events that have not happened yet.
And then the kings smote all the fields of the Amalkaee. The Amalekites. Another name that will echo through Jewish history — the first nation to attack Israel after the Exodus (Exodus 17:8), the nation whose erasure is commanded at Purim (Deuteronomy 25:19). The Targum notices that the ancient war of the four kings is already grazing the edges of a drama that will take thirteen hundred years to fully unfold.
This is the Aramaic at its most telescopic. A verse about an ancient raid is also a preview of Moses at Meribah, of Israel at Rephidim, of every confrontation with Amalek yet to come. The Holy One's map does not separate time. The springs remember forward.