Topic
Valley
31 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 14:17Easton
¶ And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale.
- Genesis 26:19Easton
And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
- Deuteronomy 1:24Easton
And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
- Deuteronomy 8:7Easton
For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
- Deuteronomy 11:11Easton
But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
- Joshua 7:24Easton
And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them…
- Joshua 10:12Easton
¶ Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
- Joshua 11:17Easton
Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.
- Joshua 12:7Easton
¶ And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for…
- Joshua 15:8Easton
And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of…
- Judges 16:4Easton
¶ And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
- 1 Samuel 17:2Easton
And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.
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- 2 Samuel 5:18 Easton
- 2 Kings 23:10 Easton
- 2 Chronicles 20:26 Easton
- 2 Chronicles 35:22 Easton
- Job 39:10 Easton
- Job 39:21 Easton
- Psalms 60:6 Easton
- Psalms 65:13 Easton
- Psalms 104:8 Easton
- Psalms 125:2 Easton
- Song of Songs 2:1 Easton
- Song of Songs 6:11 Easton
- Isaiah 22:1 Easton
- Isaiah 41:18 Easton
- Isaiah 65:10 Easton
- Jeremiah 21:13 Easton
- Hosea 1:5 Easton
- Joel 3:2 Easton
- Joel 3:12 Easton
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 31 references
(1.) Heb. bik’ah, a “cleft” of the mountains (Deut. 8:7; 11:11; Ps. 104:8; Isa. 41:18); also a low plain bounded by mountains, as the plain of Lebanon at the foot of Hermon around the sources of the Jordan (Josh. 11:17; 12:7), and the valley of Megiddo (2 Chr. 35:22).
(2.) ‘Emek, “deep;” “a long, low plain” (Job 39:10, 21; Ps. 65:13; Cant. 2:1), such as the plain of Esdraelon; the “valley of giants” (Josh. 15:8), usually translated “valley of Rephaim” (2 Sam. 5:18); of Elah (1 Sam. 17:2), of Berachah (2 Chr. 20:26); the king’s “dale” (Gen. 14:17); of Jehoshaphat (Joel 3:2, 12), of Achor (Josh. 7:24; Isa. 65:10), Succoth (Ps. 60:6), Ajalon (Josh. 10:12), Jezreel (Hos. 1:5).
(3.) Ge, “a bursting,” a “flowing together,” a narrow glen or ravine, such as the valley of the children of Hinnom (2 Kings 23:10); of Eshcol (Deut. 1:24); of Sorek (Judg. 16:4), etc.
The “valley of vision” (Isa. 22:1) is usually regarded as denoting Jerusalem, which “may be so called,” says Barnes (Com. on Isa.), “either (1) because there were several valleys within the city and adjacent to it, as the vale between Mount Zion and Moriah, the vale between Mount Moriah and Mount Ophel, between these and Mount Bezetha, and the valley of Jehoshaphat, the valley of the brook Kidron, etc., without the walls of the city; or (2) more probably it was called the valley in reference to its being compassed with hills rising to a considerable elevation above the city” (Ps. 125:2; comp. also Jer. 21:13, where Jerusalem is called a “valley”).
(4.) Heb. nahal, a wady or water-course (Gen. 26:19; Cant. 6:11).
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.