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Dead Sea

Jordan rift, between Israel and Jordan · Old Testament · 9 verses

The Dead Sea is the biblical Salt Sea, a landlocked lake so saline that little can live in it. It sits at the lowest elevation on any land on earth. The name appears in Genesis, Numbers, Deuteronomy and 1 more in the King James text.

About Dead Sea

The Dead Sea is the biblical Salt Sea, a landlocked lake so saline that little can live in it. It sits at the lowest elevation on any land on earth.

Its place in the story

Called the Salt Sea and the Sea of the Arabah in Scripture, it served as a fixed boundary of the land. The region around it was linked with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Its barren waters became a byword for lifelessness.

Dead Sea in Scripture (KJV)

“All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.”
Genesis 14:3 (KJV)
“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:”
Numbers 34:3 (KJV)
“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.”
Numbers 34:12 (KJV)
“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.”
Deuteronomy 3:17 (KJV)
“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.”
Joshua 3:16 (KJV)
“And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Bethjeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdothpisgah:”
Joshua 12:3 (KJV)
“And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:”
Joshua 15:2 (KJV)
“And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:”
Joshua 15:5 (KJV)

Dead Sea is named 9 times in Scripture; 8 shown above.

Where it leads

The prophesied renewal of these dead waters expresses the hope of new life that comes through Christ, the source of living water.

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The Dead Sea is the biblical Salt Sea, a landlocked lake so saline that little can live in it. It sits at the lowest elevation on any land on earth. The name appears in Genesis, Numbers, Deuteronomy and 1 more in the King James text.

What happened at Dead Sea?

Called the Salt Sea and the Sea of the Arabah in Scripture, it served as a fixed boundary of the land. The region around it was linked with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Its barren waters became a byword for lifelessness.

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