Dead Sea
DEAD SEA, Not so called until the second century. In Old
Testament "the Salt Sea," and "Sea of the Plain."...
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I. PRESENT AREA
II. FORMER ENLARGEMENT
III. LEVEL OF THE DEAD SEA IN EARLY HISTORIC TIMES
IV. CONSTITUTION OF THE WATER
V. CLIMATE
VI. ROADS
VII. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
1. The Plain of the Jordan
2. Ain Jidi (En-gedi)
3. The Fortress of Masada
4. Jebel Usdum (Mount of Sodom)
5. Vale of Siddim
6. El-Lisan
VIII. HISTORY
LITERATURE
The n...
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(Lies southeast of Jerusalem)
-Called SALT SEA
Ge 14:3; Nu 34:12
-SEA OF THE PLAIN
De 3:17; 4:49; Jos 3:16
-EAST SEA
Joe 2:20
-FORMER SEA
Zec 14:8
-Prophecy concerning
Eze 47:7-10,18...
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This name nowhere occurs in the Bible, and appears not to have
existed until the second century after Christ. [See SEA, THE
SALT]...
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the name given by Greek writers of the second century to
that
inland sea called in Scripture the "salt sea" (Gen.
14:3; Num.
34:12), the "sea of the plain" (Deut. 3:17), the
"east sea"
(Ezek. 47:18; Joel 2:20), and simply "the sea"
(Ezek. 47:8). The
Arabs call it Bahr Lut, i.e., the Sea of Lot. It
lies about 16
miles in a straight line to...
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The name in the Old Testament is never this, but "the Salt
Sea" , "sea of the plain." frontSALT SEA.)...
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All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is
the salt sea....
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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....
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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:...
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And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea,
from the bay that looketh southward:...
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