Valley of Salt
Valley
Location disputed Es Sebkha: about 80 km (50 miles) south of Jerusalem
Where Scholars Place It
- Es Sebkha Possible
- Wadi el Milh Possible
- Lod Less likely
- Wadi esh Shellal Less likely
- Sarafand el Kharab Less likely
Named in 5 Verses
- 2 Samuel 8:13 And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.
- 2 Kings 14:7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
- 1 Chronicles 18:12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.
- 2 Chronicles 25:11 And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.
- Psalms 60:1 O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
Locations from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Terrain from Natural Earth and NASA SRTM.
