The "circle" (hacicar) of cultivation, wherein stood Sodom, Gomorrah, and the other three cities. Ge 13:10-12, "cities of the circuit" round Jordan, the low plain along the water (Ge 19:17). In Mt 3:5 and Lu 3:3; 7:17, the populous region containing Jericho, etc., in the Jordan valley, enclosed in the amphitheater-like Quarantana hills. Compare as to the similar region of Gennesaret (Mt 14:35).
Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere--this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah--like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar. So Lot chose for himself all the valley of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. Thus they separated from each other. read more. Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the cities of the valley, and moved his tents as far as Sodom.
When they had brought them outside, one said, "Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the valley; escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away."
Then Jerusalem was going out to him, and all Judea and all the district around the Jordan;
And when the men of that place recognized Him, they sent word into all that surrounding district and brought to Him all who were sick;
And he came into all the district around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins;
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