39 Bible Verses About Valley
The scripture often leads us into the valley, a place of shadow or low terrain. Yet, it is precisely in these depths that the most profound lessons are learned and the soul's strength is truly forged. To explore the biblical references to the valley is to understand God's unwavering presence not only on the mountaintop but, crucially, when the path descends into difficulty or trial. These verses offer more than mere description; they provide spiritual compass and light, revealing how faith navigates darkness and discovers grace in humility. Engaging with these scriptural accounts illuminates the often-unseen hand of Providence guiding us through every shadow.
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And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
Bible Verses About Valley
And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the Lord had given them.
And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
So we abode in the valley over against Beth–peor.
On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Beth–peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer’s neck there in the valley:
And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth–peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.
And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
And to the kings that were on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,
So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;
And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baal–gad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
And in the valley, Beth–aram, and Beth–nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.
And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is before the going up to Adummim, which is on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the waters of En–shemesh, and the goings out thereof were at En–rogel:
And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to En–rogel,
Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth–hoglah, and the valley of Keziz,
And the border compasseth it on the north side to Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthah–el:
And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley.
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
And they of Beth–shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
And another company turned the way to Beth–horon: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.
Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
The scripture reveals the valley not merely as a low point, a regrettable descent from the mountaintop, but as an integral passage ordained within the spiritual ascent. It is in these shadowed places that strength beyond our own is most keenly perceived, where the Shepherd's presence becomes the solitary light guiding uncertain steps. Amidst testing or solitude, the soul learns profound dependence, a trust forged not in ease, but in necessity. Consider the valley, then, less a place of abandonment and more a crucible where faith is refined, perspective gained, and the quiet, persistent reality of divine provision is discovered. It is a journey towards humility and resilience, a necessary part of the soul's topography on its path toward the light.