Vale of Siddim

Valley of the broad plains, “which is the salt sea” (Gen. 14:3, 8, 10), between Engedi and the cities of the plain, at the south end of the Dead Sea. It was “full of slime-pits” (R.V., “bitumen pits”). Here Chedorlaomer and the confederate kings overthrew the kings of Sodom and the cities of the plain. God afterwards, on account of their wickedness, “overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities;” and the smoke of their destruction “went up as the smoke of a furnace” (19:24-28), and was visible from Mamre, where Abraham dwelt.

Some, however, contend that the “cities of the plain” were somewhere at the north of the Dead Sea.

Recorded scripture occurrences (3)

References recorded in the source data; this is not an exhaustive list of mentions.

Show passage in OET: GEN 14:3

OET-RV GEN 14:3

3 Those latter five kings joined forces in the Siddim valley (also known as the Salt Sea valley).

OET-LV GEN 14:3

3 All _of these they _joined _together to the _valley _of (the)_Siddim that is_the _Sea _of (the)_Salt.

Show passage in OET: GEN 14:8

OET-RV GEN 14:8

8 Then the king of Sedom, the king of Amorah, the king of Admah, the king of Tsevoim, and the king of Bela (also called Tsoar) went out into the Sidim Valley and arranged their troops for battle

OET-LV GEN 14:8

8 And_he/it _went _out the _king _of Şədom and_the _king _of ˊAmorāh and_the _king _of ʼAdmāh and_the _king _of Tsəⱱoʼīm and_the _king _of Belaˊ that is_Tsoˊar and_they _deployed with_them battle in_the _valley _of (the)_Siddim.

Show passage in OET: GEN 14:10

OET-RV GEN 14:10

10 Now the Sidim Valley had many tar pits, and when the kings of Sedom and Amorah fled, they fell into the pits, but the rest fled up into the hills.

OET-LV GEN 14:10

10 And_the _valley _of (the)_Siddim was_pits _of pits _of bitumen and_ the _king _of Şədom and_Amorah _they _fled and_they _fell to_(to) and_those_who_survived the _hill _country_to they _fled.

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