The Battle of the Vale of Siddim – or as it is known in Jewish tradition, The War of the Four Kings against the Five (Genesis 14:1-17) – was a result of long-standing tensions in theJordan Valleyduring ancient times. A turning point in hostilities occurred when four Mesopotamian armie...
The subsequent breaching of the Sodom-Lisan ridge and the flooding of the southern basin may well be events of historic times, hypothetically burying the Vale of Siddim with its ruined cities (cf. Gen 14:3). Sodom and Gomorrah apart, instability is a recurrent feature of this structural “...
8 Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboyim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out and prepared for battle. In the Valley of Siddim they met[abe] 9 Kedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of nations,[abf] Amraphel king of ...
The valley was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah tried to run away from the battle, they fell into the pits; but the other three kings escaped to the mountains. International Standard VersionNow the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, so when the kings of...
the battle going hard against them, and they not able to stand before their enemies: and fell there, or "into them" F23; the slimepits, or fountains of bitumen, into which they precipitately fell, and many perished; or of their own accord they threw themselves into them for their own ...
as in ( Genesis 14:2 ) : and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim; where the five Canaanitish kings met, of which see ( Genesis 14:3 ) ; and fought the four kings that were come forth against them, and whose names are repeated, and are as follow: Read More Tak...
10Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country. 11The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and they went on their way. 12...
and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar); and they set the battle in array against them in the vale of Siddim; 9against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the...
For this reason, it has commonly been taken for granted that pits of bitumen existed in the Dead Sea area, and into which the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fell after losing a battle in the vale of Siddim in the Dead Sea region (Genesis, 14:10). However, physical evidence for the ...
EDIT: A generous reply from Jon Peterson adds that Fred Vietmeyer’s “Battle of Leipzig” play report, printed in the New England Wargamers Association’sThe Couriervolume 1, numbers 9-11, describes Esten as a brigade commander in the 2-day event (October 18-19, 1969 in Claypool, India...