All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
Parallel translations
- WEB All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (also called 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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Quick answer
The five kings allied in the Valley of Siddim, later the Salt Sea. The site links the battle to the region of Sodom.
Overview
The rebel kings gather in the Valley of Siddim, identified with the area of the Dead Sea. The geographical note connects the coming battle to the doomed cities of the plain. This setting underscores the worldly danger into which Lot has placed himself by settling near Sodom.
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- Josh 3:16That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
- Deut 3:17The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah eastward.
- Num 34:12And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.
- Gen 19:24Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
- Ps 107:34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
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