Zoar
Zoar appears in 9 verses of the Bible, from Genesis to Jeremiah.
- City · Bible atlas
- Near Al Safi, 86 km south of Jerusalem
- Likely identification
- 9 proposed sites
In the Bible dictionary
Zoar, earlier called Bela, was a small city of the Jordan plain near the Dead Sea. God spared it when Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, because Lot fled there; it later appears as a Moabite town.
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Lot took a long look at the fertile plains of the Jordan Valley in the direction of Zoar. The whole area was well watered everywhere, like the garden of the Lord or the beautiful land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
Genesis 13:10 · Read the chapter -
the Negev; the Jordan Valley with Jericho—the city of palms—as far as Zoar.
Deuteronomy 34:3 · Read the chapter -
My heart weeps for Moab. Its people flee to Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah. Weeping, they climb the road to Luhith. Their cries of distress can be heard all along the road to Horonaim.
Isaiah 15:5 · Read the chapter -
“Instead, their awful cries of terror can be heard from Heshbon clear across to Elealeh and Jahaz; from Zoar all the way to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. Even the waters of Nimrim are dried up now.
Jeremiah 48:34 · Read the chapter
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