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Shur

Shur

31.2819°, 34.4825° Identification — possible

Abarim Canaan Edom Midian Shur Jerusalem Samaria 1 Sodom Mount Sinai Kadesh-barnea Ramoth-gilead Bozrah 1 Gedor 2 Gerar Shaaraim 2 Sharuhen Shilhim Ziklag Gaza Bered Shur
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Where the Bible names it (6)

  1. Genesis 16:7 Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.
  2. Genesis 20:1 Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.
  3. Genesis 25:18 They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.
  4. Exodus 15:22 Moses 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.
  5. 1 Samuel 15:7 Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.
  6. 1 Samuel 27:8 David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.

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