This second group of kings joined forces in Siddim Valley (that is, the valley of the Dead Sea).
Parallel translations
- WEB All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (also called the Salt Sea).
- 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).
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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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Cross-references · 5
- 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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