Atlas Biblica

    place

    Ezion-geber

    עֶצְיוֹן גֶּ֫בֶר

    Ezion-geber, an Israelite encampment during the Exodus and later a port city on the Red Sea, known for its maritime trade and shipbuilding.

    Where the story of Ezion-geber happens Ezion-geber, and 3 places the claims reach, framed to them: Ezion-geber, Edom, Elath, Red_Sea. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Ezion-geberEdomElathRed_Sea
    Ezion-geber, and 3 places the claims reach
    verses
    7
    first named
    Numbers 33:35
    last named
    2 Chronicles 20:36
    feature
    island
    coordinates
    29.46°N · 34.86°E
    island29.46°N · 34.86°E

    Jezirat Faraun (OpenBible)

    Scholarship offers 2 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.

    Description

    Ezion-geber in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Ezion-geber is mentioned in the Bible as both an encampment site during the Israelites' wilderness wanderings and a significant port city on the Red Sea during the reigns of Solomon and Jehoshaphat.

    In the context of the Exodus, Ezion-geber is listed as one of the places where the Israelites camped after departing from Kadesh and before entering the land of Canaan (Numbers 33:35-36; Deu.2.8). It was located near Elath, at the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba, in the modern-day country of Jordan.

    During Solomon's reign, Ezion-geber became a major port city and a center for maritime trade. Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which sailed to Ophir and brought back gold, silver, and other precious materials (1Ki.9.26-28; 2Ch.8.17-18). The strategic location of Ezion-geber allowed Solomon to establish trade routes with Arabia, East Africa, and possibly even India.

    Later, during the reign of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, there was an attempt to revive the maritime trade from Ezion-geber.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    Located in

    Stands in the same events as

    The pattern

    Where Ezion-geber is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 7 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSNUMBERS–DEUTERONOMY3 VERSES2 CHRONICLES2 VERSES52 books and 786 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 7 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSNUMBERS–DEUTERONOMY3 VERSES2 CHRONICLES2 VERSES52 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Ezion-geber is named in 7 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 62 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 7, across 4 books.

    1. Numbers2 verses

      33:3533:36

    2. Deuteronomy1 verse

      2:8

    3. 1 Kings2 verses

      9:2622:48

    4. 2 Chronicles2 verses

      8:1720:36

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via EdomHor MountMountain where Aaron died and was buried

    Where they appear

    What happened here

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

    What this rests on