Where the kings gave battle, glossed by the text itself as 'the Salt Sea' — the Dead Sea basin, 'pit after pit of tar' (14:3, 8, 10). The bitumen the basin still seeps trapped the fleeing kings. The exact cities of the plain are debated (see Sodom and Gomorrah).
📍 Valley of Siddim (the Salt Sea) — modern-day the Dead Sea basin
🗺️ No ancient-world overlay on the shelf yet for this site — a period map
showing how the region actually looked in the biblical world gets added here as Mr. Librarian curates one,
the same way the encyclopedia's film shelf grows.
▶ No films on the shelf yet — archaeology and geography videos get added here as Mr. Librarian finds good ones.