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Red Sea
Body of water mentioned in 5 verses of the Bible, most often in Exodus.
Where it appears
Exodus (1), Judges (1), 1 Kings (1), 2 Chronicles (1), Jeremiah (1)
Key verses
- Exodus 23:31 first mention — And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
- Judges 11:16 — But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
- 1 Kings 9:26 — And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
- 2 Chronicles 8:17 — Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.
- Jeremiah 49:21 — The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.
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