All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (also called the Salt Sea).
Parallel translations
- KJV All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
- BSB The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
- NKJV All these joined together in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
- NASB All these kings came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
- NLT This second group of kings joined forces in Siddim Valley (that is, the valley of the Dead Sea).
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- Josh 3:16the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near Jericho.
- Deut 3:17the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
- Num 34:12The border shall go down to the Jordan, and end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders around it.’”
- Gen 19:24Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
- Ps 107:34and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
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