Red Sea
Where it is
27.09° N, 34.77° E · water
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Counted from 26 references · STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0
About this place
The Red Sea is significant in the Bible as the sea the Israelites miraculously crossed during the Exodus from Egypt. God parted the waters, allowing Israel to cross on dry ground, but drowned the pursuing Egyptian army when the waters closed back over them (Exo. 14-15). This event is remembered as a great act of divine deliverance (Jos. 2:10; Neh. 9:9; Psa. 106:7-9; 136:13-15). The Red Sea also marked the southern border of the Promised Land (Exo. 23:31). King Solomon later built a fleet of ships on the Red Sea at Ezion-geber (1Ki. 9:26). The Hebrew name Yam Suph means "Sea of Reeds", so the body of water was likely one of the shallow lakes along Egypt's eastern border rather than the main body of the Red Sea. Its exact location is debated.
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Every mention
26 references, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)
Exodus5 mentions
Exodus 10:19Yahweh sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.Exodus 13:18but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.Exodus 15:4He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.Exodus 15:22Moses led Israel onward 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.Exodus 23:31I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you…
Numbers4 mentions
Numbers 14:25Since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”Numbers 21:4They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. The soul of the people was very discouraged because of the journey.Numbers 33:10They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.Numbers 33:11They traveled from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
Deuteronomy3 mentions
Deuteronomy 1:40But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”Deuteronomy 2:1Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days.Deuteronomy 11:4and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them…
Joshua3 mentions
Joshua 2:10For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to…Joshua 4:23For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you until you had crossed over, as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we had…Joshua 24:6I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea. The Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea.
Judges1 mention
1 Kings1 mention
Nehemiah1 mention
Psalms5 mentions
Psalms 106:7Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.Psalms 106:9He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.Psalms 106:22wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea.Psalms 136:13to him who divided the Red Sea apart, for his loving kindness endures forever;Psalms 136:15but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea, for his loving kindness endures forever;
Jeremiah1 mention
What the dictionary says
The sea so called extends along the west coast of Arabia for about 1,400 miles, and separates Asia from Africa.
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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