Red Sea

Body of water mentioned in 24 verses of the Bible, most often in Psalms.

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Where it appears

Psalms (9), Exodus (4), Numbers (3), Joshua (3), Deuteronomy (1), Nehemiah (1), Isaiah (1), Acts (1), Hebrews (1)

Key verses

• Exodus 10:19 first mention — And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
• Nehemiah 9:9 — And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
• Psalms 66:6 — He turned the sea into dry they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
• Psalms 77:16 — The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
• Psalms 106:7 — Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
• Psalms 106:9 — He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
• Psalms 114:3 — The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
• Psalms 136:13 — To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever:
• Psalms 136:15 — But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.
• Isaiah 63:11 — Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
• Acts 7:36 — He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
• Hebrews 11:29 — By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.

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