We must not conceal from ourselves that true Christianity brings with it a daily cross in this life, while it offers us a crown of glory in the life to come. The flesh must be daily crucified. The devil must be daily resisted. The world must be daily overcome. There is a warfare to be waged, and a battle to be fought. All this is the inseparable accompaniment of true religion. Heaven is not to be won without it. Never was there a truer word than the old saying, “No cross, no crown!” If we never found this out by experience, our souls are in a poor condition.
J.C. Ryle

VALLEYS

VALLEYS

VALLEYS

  1. Tracts of land between mountains # 1Sa 17:3
  2. CALLED 2a) Vales

    # De 1:7 Jos 10:40

2b) Dales # Ge 14:17 2Sa 18:18 2c) Fat valleys, when fruitful # Isa 28:1,4 2d) Rough valleys, when uncultivated and barren # De 21:4 3) Watered by mountain streams # Ps 104:8,10 4) Canaan abounded in # De 11:11 5) ABOUNDED WITH 5a) Fountains and springs # De 8:7 Isa 41:18 5b) Rocks and caves # Job 30:6 Isa 57:5 5c) Trees # 1Ki 10:27 5d) Lily of the valley # So 2:1 5e) Ravens # Pr 30:17 5f) Doves # Eze 7:16 6) Of Israel well tilled and fruitful # 1Sa 6:13 Ps 65:13 7) Often the scenes of idolatrous rites # Isa 57:5 8) The heathen supposed that certain deities presided over # 1Ki 20:23,28 9) The Canaanites held possession of, against Judah # Jud 1:19 10) Often the scenes of great contests # Jud 5:15 7:8,22 1Sa 17:19 11) MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE 11a) Achor # Jos 7:24 Isa 65:10 Ho 2:5 11b) Ajalon # Jos 10:12 11c) Baca # Ps 84:6 11d) Berachah # 2Ch 20:26 11e) Bochim # Jud 2:5 11f) Charashim # 1Ch 4:14 11g) Elah # 1Sa 17:2 21:9 11h) Eshcol # Nu 32:9 De 1:24 11i) Gad # 2Sa 24:5 11j) Gerar # Ge 26:17 11k) Gibeon # Isa 28:21 11l) Hebron # Ge 37:14 11m) Hinnom or Tophet # Jos 18:16 2Ki 23:10 2Ch 28:3 Jer 7:32 11n) Jehoshaphat or decision # Joe 3:2,14 11o) Jericho # De 34:3 11p) Jezreel # Ho 1:5 11q) Jephthah-el # Jos 19:14,27 11r) Keziz # Jos 18:21 11s) Lebanon # Jos 11:17 11t) Megiddo # 2Ch 35:22 Zec 12:11 11u) Moab where Moses was buried # De 34:6 11v) Passengers or Hamongog # Eze 39:11 11w) Rephaim or giants # Jos 15:8 18:16 2Sa 5:18 Isa 17:5 11x) Salt # 2Sa 8:13 2Ki 14:17 11y) Shaveh or king’s dale # Ge 14:17 2Sa 18:18 11z) Shittim # Joe 3:18 11A) Siddim # Ge 14:3,8 11B) Sorek # Jud 16:4 11C) Succoth # Ps 60:6 11D) Zared # Nu 21:12 11E) Zeboim # 1Sa 13:18 11F) Zephathah # 2Ch 14:10 12) To be filled with hostile chariots, threatened as a punishment # Isa 22:7 13) MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH 13a) The moon made to stand still over Ajalon # Jos 10:12 13b) Ditches in, filled with water # 2Ki 3:16,17 13c) Water in, made to appear to the Moabites like blood # 2Ki 3:22,23 14) ILLUSTRATIVE 14a) Of the church of Christ # So 6:11 14b) (Fruitful and well watered,) of the tents of Israel # Nu 24:6 14c) (Dark,) of affliction and death # Ps 23:4 14d) (Filling up of,) of removing all obstructions to the gospel # Isa 40:4 Lu 3:5