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Reference: Region Round About
Fausets
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).