Salt Sea

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Also known as the Dead Sea. Thought to be the original location of the ancient doomed cities Sodom and Gomorrah.

• "All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea" (Genesis 14:3).
• "Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:" (Numbers 34:3).
• "And 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" (Numbers 34:12).
• "The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast [thereof], from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah eastward" (Deuteronomy 3:17).
• "That 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" (Joshua 3:16).
• "And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea on the east, the way to Bethjeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdothpisgah:" (Joshua 12:3).
• "And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:" (Joshua 15:2).
• "And the east border [was] the salt sea, [even] unto the end of Jordan. And [their] border in the north quarter [was] from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:" (Joshua 15:5).
• "And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this [was] the south coast" (Joshua 18:19).