Numbers - 33:35

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35 They traveled from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion Geber.

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 33:35.

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And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Eziongaber.
And they journeyed from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion-geber.
And departing from Hebrona, they camped in Asiongaber.
And they removed from Abronah, and encamped at Ezion-geber.
And they journeyed from Abronah, and pitched in Ezion-geber.
And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Ezion-gaber.
And they journey from Ebronah, and encamp in Ezion-Gaber;
And they went on from Abronah, and put up their tents in Ezion-geber.
They traveled from Abronah, and camped in Ezion Geber.
And departing from Abronah, they made camp at Eziongeber.
Profecti vero ex Abronah, castrametati sunt in Esion-gaber.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Ezion-gaber - "Giant's backbone." The Wady Ghadhyan, a valley running eastward into the Arabah some miles north of the present head of the Elanitic gulf. A salt marsh which here overspreads a portion of the Arabah may be taken as indicating the limit to which the sea anciently reached; and we may thus infer the existence here in former times of an extensive tidal haven, at the head of which the city of Ezion-geber stood. Here it was that from the time of Solomon onward the Jewish navy was constructed 1-Kings 9:26; 1-Kings 22:49.

Ezion-gaber - Dr. Shaw places this port on the western coast of the Elantic gulf of the Red Sea. It is now called Meenah el Dsahab, or the golden port, by the Arabs; because it was from this place that Solomon sent his ships for gold to Ophir, 1-Kings 9:26. He supposes it to be about sixty miles distant from Mount Sinai - Travels, p. 322, 4th. edition.
Stat. 32.

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