Lexicon :: Strong's H1516 - gay'

So David made a name for himself when he returned from killing 18,000 [fn]Arameans (Syrians) in the Valley of Salt.

Amaziah killed 10,000 [men] of Edom in the Valley of Salt, and took [fn]Sela (rock) by war, and renamed it Joktheel, to this day.

Also Abishai the son of Zeruiah [David’s half sister] defeated 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

Now Amaziah took courage and led his people out to the Valley of Salt, and he struck down 10,000 of the men of Seir (Edom).

Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate. They built it and set up its doors with its bolts and its bars, and repaired a thousand cubits (1,500 ft.) of the wall as far as the Refuse Gate.

Even though I walk through the [sunless] [fn]valley of the shadow of death,

I fear no evil, for You are with me;

Your rod [to protect] and Your staff [to guide], they comfort and console me.

To the Chief Musician; set to [the tune of] “The Lily of the Testimony.” A Mikhtam of David [intended to record memorable thoughts and] to teach; when he struggled with the Arameans of Mesopotamia and the Arameans of Zobah, and when Joab returned and struck twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

O God, You have rejected us and cast us off. You have broken [down our defenses and scattered] us;

You have been angry; O restore us and turn again to us.

The [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) concerning the Valley of Vision:

What is the matter with you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops,

For the Lord GOD of hosts has a day of panic and of tumult, of trampling, of confusion

In the Valley of Vision,

A [day of] breaking down walls

And a crying [for help] to the mountain.

Woe (judgment is coming) to [Samaria] the splendid crown of the drunkards of [fn]Ephraim,

And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty,

Which is at the head of the rich valley

Of those who are overcome with wine!

And the fading flower of its glorious beauty,

Which is at the head of the rich valley,

Will be like the early fig before the summer,

Which one sees,

And as soon as it is in his hand

He [greedily] swallows it [and so will the Assyrians rapidly devour Samaria, Israel’s capital].

“Every valley shall be raised,

And every mountain and hill be made low;

And let the rough ground become a plain,

And the rugged places a broad valley.

“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled,

I have not gone after [man-made gods like] the Baals’?

Look at your way in the valley;

Know [without any doubt] what you have done!

You are a swift and restless young [female] camel [in the heat of her passion] running here and there,

“And I will scatter your flesh on the mountains

And fill the valleys with your debris [your corpses and their worms].

“And on that day I will give Gog a place for burial there in Israel, the valley of those who pass through east of the sea, and it will block the way of those who would pass through. So they will [fn]bury Gog there with all his hordes, and they will call it the Valley of Hamon-gog (the multitude of Gog).