Genesis 14:3

Contemporary English Version 1995

King Chedorlaomer and his allies had ruled these last five kings for twelve years, but in the thirteenth year the kings rebelled and joined forces in Siddim Valley, which is now covered by the southern part of the Dead Sea.

Cross References

Joshua 3:16

the river stopped flowing, and the water started piling up at the town of Adam near Zarethan. No water flowed toward the Dead Sea, and the priests stood in the middle of the dry riverbed near Jericho while everyone else crossed over.

Numbers 34:12

then follow the Jordan River down to the north end of the Dead Sea. The land within those four borders will belong to you.

Genesis 19:24

and the Lord sent burning sulfur down like rain on Sodom and Gomorrah.

Psalm 107:34

flowing streams into scorched land, and fruitful fields into beds of salt.

Genesis 14:8

At Siddim Valley, the armies of the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Bela fought the armies of King Chedorlaomer of Elam, King Tidal of Goiim, King Amraphel of Babylonia, and King Arioch of Ellasar. The valley

Genesis 14:10

was full of tar pits, and when the troops from Sodom and Gomorrah started running away, some of them fell into the pits. Others escaped to the hill country.