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Title: A dictionary of the Bible..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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r valu-able part, and become good for nothingbut to be cast out, and to be trodden un-der foot of men. SALT, CITY OF, the fifth ofthe six cities possessed by the childrenof Judah, and situated in the wildernessof Judah. It is mentioned between Nib-shan and En-gedi. Josh. 15 : 62. Severalsites have been suggested for this city. 1. Van de Velde found a Nakr Maleh(salt), one of four ravines formingthe Wddy el-Bedim, and would locatethe city of salt in that vicinity. 2. Others propose to place it at theruin Vm-baghek, or Em-berhek, lying ashort distance north of the salt moun-tain of Jebel Usdum. 3. Conder suggests that it is identicalwith the presenr large ruin, Tell el-MiIh,15 miles east of Beersheba. SALT SEA, or DEAD SEA.Names.—This sea is called in the Scrip-tures the sea of the plain, Deut. 4 :49 ; 2 Kgs. 14 : 25 : the salt sea,Deut. 3:17; Josh. 3:16; 12 : 3 ; theeast sea, Joel 2 : 20; Eze. 47 : 18;Zech. 14 : 8: and the sea. Eze. 47 :8. It also appears as the vale of Sid- K* ITebo
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48 The Salt or Dead Sea. (After Sketch by Majcr Wilson.)The figures denote the depression below the Mediterranean Sea. SAL SAL dim. Gen. 14 : 3. In 2 Esd. 5 : 7 it ap-pears as the Sodornitish sea; in theTalmud as the sea of Sodom and thesea of salt; in Josephus as the as-phaltic and Sodomitic lake. The ti-tle Dead Sea was not found in Jew-ish writers, but was introduced at anearly period by the Greek authors. TheArabs give it the same name, but morecommonly call it the Bahr Lut, or Lakeof Lot. Situation and Extent.—The Salt orDead Sea is situated only 16 miles fromJerusalem, in a straight line, and isplainly visible from the Mount of Olives.It occupies the deepest portion of thegreat depression which extends fromthe range of Lebanon on the north tothe Gulf of Akabah on the south. Itlies between 31° 6 and 31° 46 N. lat.,and 35° 24 and 35° 37 E. long. Thesea is 46 miles long, 10J miles in itsgreatest width, and covers an area ofnearly 300 square miles, varying some-what with the s

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