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Valleys
Tracts of land between mountains - 1Sa 17:3
CALLED
- Vales
- De 1:7; Jos 10:40- Dales
- Ge 14:17; 2Sa 18:18- Fat valleys, when fruitful
- Isa 28:1,4- Rough valleys, when uncultivated and barren
- De 21:4Watered by mountain streams - Ps 104:8,10
Canaan abounded in - De 11:11
ABOUNDED WITH
- Fountains and springs
- De 8:7; Isa 41:18- Rocks and caves
- Job 30:6; Isa 57:5- Trees
- 1Ki 10:27- Lily of the valley
- So 2:1- Ravens
- Pr 30:17- Doves
- Eze 7:16Of Israel well tilled and fruitful - 1Sa 6:13; Ps 65:13
Often the scenes of idolatrous rites - Isa 57:5
The heathen supposed that certain deities presided over - 1Ki 20:23,28
The Canaanites held possession of, against Judah - Jud 1:19
Often the scenes of great contests - Jud 5:15; 7:8,22; 1Sa 17:19
MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
- Achor
- Jos 7:24; Isa 65:10; Ho 2:5- Ajalon
- Jos 10:12- Baca
- Ps 84:6- Berachah
- 2Ch 20:26- Bochim
- Jud 2:5- Charashim
- 1Ch 4:14- Elah
- 1Sa 17:2; 21:9- Eshcol
- Nu 32:9; De 1:24- Gad
- 2Sa 24:5- Gerar
- Ge 26:17- Gibeon
- Isa 28:21- Hebron
- Ge 37:14- Hinnom or Tophet
- Jos 18:16; 2Ki 23:10; 2Ch 28:3; Jer 7:32- Jehoshaphat or decision
- Joe 3:2,14- Jericho
- De 34:3- Jezreel
- Ho 1:5- Jephthah-el
- Jos 19:14,27- Keziz
- Jos 18:21- Lebanon
- Jos 11:17- Megiddo
- 2Ch 35:22; Zec 12:11- Moab where Moses was buried
- De 34:6- Passengers or Hamongog
- Eze 39:11- Rephaim or giants
- Jos 15:8; 18:16; 2Sa 5:18; Isa 17:5- Salt
- 2Sa 8:13; 2Ki 14:17- Shaveh or king's dale
- Ge 14:17; 2Sa 18:18- Shittim
- Joe 3:18- Siddim
- Ge 14:3,8- Sorek
- Jud 16:4- Succoth
- Ps 60:6- Zared
- Nu 21:12- Zeboim
- 1Sa 13:18- Zephathah
- 2Ch 14:10To be filled with hostile chariots, threatened as a punishment - Isa 22:7
MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH
- The moon made to stand still over Ajalon
- Jos 10:12- Ditches in, filled with water
- 2Ki 3:16,17- Water in, made to appear to the Moabites like blood
- 2Ki 3:22,23ILLUSTRATIVE
- Of the church of Christ
- So 6:11- (Fruitful and well watered,) of the tents of Israel
- Nu 24:6- (Dark,) of affliction and death
- Ps 23:4- (Filling up of,) of removing all obstructions to the gospel
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