3All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
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.
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.
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)We have here an account of the first war that ever we read of in scripture, which (though the wars of the nations make the greatest figure in history) we should not have had the history of if Abram and Lot had not been concerned in it. Now, concerning this war, we may observe, I. The parties engaged in it. The invaders were four kings, two of them no less than kings of Shinar and Elam (that is, Ch…
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