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All these joined forces at the valley of Siddim (that is, the sea of the salt).

But his wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

Also all of your grain offerings you must season with salt; you must not omit the salt of your God's covenant from your offering.

All the contributions of holiness that the Israelites offer to Yahweh I have given to you and your sons and your daughters with you as an eternal decree; it is an eternal covenant of salt before Yahweh to you and your offspring with you."

Your southern edge will be from the desert of Zin toward the side of Edom, and your southern border will be from the end of the Salt Sea to the east;

The boundary will go down to the Jordan, and its limits will be at the Salt Sea. This will be your land according to its boundaries all around.'"

And the Jordan Valley with the Jordan River as its boundary, from Kinnereth up to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, with the slopes of Pisgah toward the east.

‘All its land is brimstone and salt left by fire, none of its land will be sown, and it will not make plants sprout out and it will not grow any vegetation; it is as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Adman and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overturned in his anger and in his wrath.'

the waters flowing down from above stood still; they stood up in one heap very far from Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, while the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off; and the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

and the Arabah up to the Kinnereth Sea to the east, and as far as the sea of Arabah, the Salt Sea to the east, in the direction of Beth Jeshimoth, and to the area southward, at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah;

Their southern border was from the end of the Salt Sea, from the bay facing southward;

The eastern border is the Salt Sea up to the mouth of the Jordan. The border on the northern side runs from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan;

Nibshan, the city of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities and their villages.

The border passes on to the slope of Beth-hoglah to the north and ends at the north bay of the Salt Sea at the south end of the Jordan. This is the southern border.

Abimelech fought against the city all that day, and he captured the city and killed the people that were in it; then he broke down the city and sowed it with salt.

So David made a name for himself when he returned from defeating Aram in the Valley of Salt, eighteen thousand.

So he said, "Bring me a new bowl and put salt in it." So they brought it to him.

Then he went out to the spring of waters and threw the salt into it there and said, "Thus says Yahweh, ‘I hereby purify these waters; let there be no longer any death or unproductiveness from it.'"

He also killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and he seized Sela in the battle, and he called its name Jokteel, until this day.

And Abishai son of Zeruiah defeated eighteen thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.