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Dead Sea in the Bible
Also called Salt Sea
The Salt Sea marks Judah's eastern border and the desolation left after Sodom. Ezekiel's closing vision has a river from the temple running down to it and making its waters fresh.
Archaeology
The caves at Qumran on its northwestern shore produced the Dead Sea Scrolls, including a complete Isaiah scroll a thousand years older than any previously known Hebrew manuscript.
Verses mentioning Dead Sea
445 occurrences across 377 verses in the King James Version.
- Psalms 74:13
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. divide: Heb. break dragons: or, whales
Read in context - Psalms 77:19
Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
Read in context - Psalms 78:13
He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
Read in context - Psalms 78:27
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: feathered: Heb. fowl of wing
Read in context - Psalms 78:53
And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. overwhelmed: Heb. covered
Read in context - Psalms 80:11
She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Read in context - Psalms 89:9
Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
Read in context - Psalms 89:25
I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
Read in context - Psalms 93:4
The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Read in context - Psalms 95:5
The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. The sea: Heb. Whose the sea is
Read in context - Psalms 96:11
Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof. the fulness: or, all it containeth
Read in context - Psalms 98:7
Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. the fulness: or, all it containeth
Read in context - Psalms 104:25
So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Read in context - Psalms 106:7
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
Read in context - Psalms 106:9
He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
Read in context - Psalms 106:22
Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.
Read in context - Psalms 107:3
And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south. south: Heb. sea
Read in context - Psalms 107:23
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
Read in context - Psalms 114:3
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
Read in context - Psalms 114:5
What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
Read in context - Psalms 135:6
Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
Read in context - Psalms 136:13
To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Read in context - Psalms 136:15
But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever. overthrew: Heb. shaked off
Read in context - Psalms 139:9
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Read in context - Psalms 146:6
Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
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