Jos 15:62 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 62. The city of Salt ] Or of Melach . This city was somewhere in the vicinity of the lake Asphaltites , the waters of which are the saltest perhaps in the world. The whole country abounds with salt : . Some suppose that it is the same as Zoar, the place to which Lot escaped after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. En-gedi ] The well of the kid : it was situated between Jericho and the lake of Sodom or Dead Sea.

‏ Joshua 15:62

Verse 62. The city of Salt] Or of Melach. This city was somewhere in the vicinity of the lake Asphaltites, the waters of which are the saltest perhaps in the world. The whole country abounds with salt: See Clarke on Ge 19:25. Some suppose that it is the same as Zoar, the place to which Lot escaped after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

En-gedi] The well of the kid: it was situated between Jericho and the lake of Sodom or Dead Sea.