2 Kings 14:7
Amaziah struck down 10,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. He took Sela in battle and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this very day.
He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
Note Selah: or, the rock
He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.
He slew of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called the name of it Joktheel, unto this day.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- slew
- A.M. 3177. B.C.827.
- 2 Kings 8:20–22; 2 Chronicles 25:11, 12
- the valley of salt
- Some suppose that the Valley of Salt was south of the Dead, or Salt Sea, towards the land of Edom; and others suppose it to be the Valley of Salt, about three or four miles south-east of Palmyra, which now supplies, in a great measure, the surrounding country with salt.
- 2 Samuel 8:13; 1 Chronicles 18:12; Psalm 60:1
- Joktheel
- Joshua 15:38