Red Sea

Red Sea is a body of water and river named in 21 verses of the Bible. It is most likely identified with Gulf of Suez (low confidence; 7 other proposals below).

Location

Where scholars place it, most confident first. Confidence is OpenBible.info's score from the sources it surveys; it is not this site's judgment.

Verses

Exodus

• Exodus 13:18
  But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.So God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt arrayed for battle.
• Exodus 15:4
  Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.
• Exodus 15:22
  So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days they walked in the desert without finding water.

Numbers

• Numbers 33:8
  And they departed from before Pi–hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.They set out from Pi-hahiroth and crossed through the sea, into the wilderness, and they journeyed three days into the Wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 11:4
  And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord hath destroyed them unto this day;what He did to the Egyptian army and horses and chariots when He made the waters of the Red Sea engulf them as they pursued you, and how He destroyed them completely, even to this day;

Joshua

• Joshua 2:10
  For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.For we have heard how the LORD dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction.
• Joshua 4:23
  For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as He did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over.
• Joshua 24:6
  And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.When I brought your fathers out of Egypt and you reached the Red Sea, the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen as far as the Red Sea.

Nehemiah

• Nehemiah 9:9
  And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt; You heard their cry at the Red Sea.

Psalms

• Psalm 66:6
  He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the waters on foot; there we rejoiced in Him.
• Psalm 77:16
  The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken.
• Psalm 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.Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
• Psalm 106:9
  He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.
• Psalm 106:22
  Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
• Psalm 114:3
  The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
• Psalm 114:5
  What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
• Psalm 136:13
  To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever:He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.
• Psalm 136:15
  But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.but swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea. His loving devotion endures forever.

Isaiah

• 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?Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,

Acts

• 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.He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.

Hebrews

• Hebrews 11:29
  By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to follow, they were drowned.

Notes

1. Locations from the OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
2. Verses are those where at least one of ten English translations names this place, per OpenBible.info.