plain, the cities of the

plain, the cities of the
Five cities to the SE of the Dead Sea (Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Zoar) where there was a battle between kings (Gen. 14). If there is a historical basis to the story, the cities (Gen. 13) were probably around rather than in the Dead Sea plain, according to archaeologists.

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