Salt Sea

Identified as

Dead Sea

Certainty

Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)

Coordinates

31.500° N, 35.500° E

Dead Sea· Arabah· Salt Sea

• מֶ֫לַח·Salt Sea
• עֲרָבָה·Arabah

1. Genesis 14:3מֶ֫לַח · Salt Sea
   The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
2. Numbers 34:3מֶ֫לַח · Salt Sea
   Your southern border will extend from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. On the east, your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea,
3. Numbers 34:12מֶ֫לַח · Salt Sea
   Then the border will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be your land, defined by its borders on all sides.”
4. Deuteronomy 3:17עֲרָבָה · Arabah; מֶ֫לַח · Salt Sea
   The Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.
5. Deuteronomy 4:49עֲרָבָה · Arabah
   …including all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.
6. Joshua 3:16עֲרָבָה · Arabah; מֶ֫לַח · Salt Sea
   …the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.
7. Joshua 12:3עֲרָבָה · Arabah; מֶ֫לַח · Salt Sea
   …as well as the Arabah east of the Sea of Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), eastward through Beth-jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah.
8. Joshua 15:2מֶ֫לַח · Salt Sea
   Their southern border started at the bay on the southern tip of the Salt Sea,
9. Joshua 15:5מֶ֫לַח · Salt Sea
   The eastern border was the Salt Sea as far as the mouth of the Jordan. The northern border started from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan,
10. Joshua 18:19מֶ֫לַח · Salt Sea
    The border continued to the northern slope of Beth-hoglah and came out at the northern bay of the Salt Sea, at the mouth of the Jordan. This was the southern border.
11. 2 Kings 14:25עֲרָבָה · Arabah
    This Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.