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    "technical_definition": "A topographical motif in which valleys function as places of confrontation, shadow, lament, deathlike dryness, judicial decision, or gracious reversal when the LORD fills, restores, or transforms the low place.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 30 draft-normalized terrain imagery review; distinguish this from mountain imagery by focusing on descent, lowliness, battle spaces, and reversal of the low place.",
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      "reference": "1 Sam. 17:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "set the battle in array in the valley of Elah",
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      "reference": "Ps. 23:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the valley of the shadow of death",
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      "reference": "Isa. 22:1",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the valley of vision",
      "explanation": "The valley name frames Jerusalem’s crisis with prophetic irony.",
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      "reference": "Isa. 40:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Every valley shall be exalted",
      "explanation": "Low places are lifted in the imagery of divine preparation and reversal.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Jer. 7:32",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the valley of the son of Hinnom",
      "explanation": "The valley becomes an image of judgment upon corrupted worship.",
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      "reference": "Ezek. 37:1",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones",
      "explanation": "The valley of dry bones dramatizes national death and promised restoration.",
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      "reference": "Hos. 2:15",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the valley of Achor for a door of hope",
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      "reference": "Joel 3:14",
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      "reference": "Luke 3:5",
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      "explanation": "John’s ministry is framed by Isaiah’s valley-leveling preparation imagery.",
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