Red Sea (Exodus 23)

Red Sea (Exodus 23) is a body of water named in 5 verses of the Bible. It is most likely identified with Gulf of Aqaba (high confidence).

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 23:31
  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.And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

Judges

• Judges 11:16
  But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;But when Israel came up out of Egypt, they traveled through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.

1 Kings

• 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.King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 8:17
  Then went Solomon to Ezion–geber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth on the coast of Edom.

Jeremiah

• 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.At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; their cry will resound to the Red Sea.

Notes

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2. Verses are those where at least one of ten English translations names this place, per OpenBible.info.