Vale of Siddim

Vale of Siddim

Vale of Siddim - valley of the broad plains, "which is the salt sea" (Genesis 14:3,8, 10), between Engedi and the cities of the plain, at the southend of the Dead Sea. It was "full of slime-pits" (R.V., "bitumenpits"). Here Chedorlaomer and the confederate kings overthrewthe kings of Sodom and the cities of the plain. God afterwards,on account of their wickedness, "overthrew those cities, and allthe plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities;" and the smokeof 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" weresomewhere at the north of the Dead Sea.Fact|date=June 2008 (See Sodom.)


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