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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Ezion-geber
Solomon built his fleet here, at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba near Elath, to sail for Ophir, and Jehoshaphat's ships were wrecked here later. Nelson Glueck dug Tell el-Kheleifeh in the 1930s and called it the site, though later work on the pottery has kept the question open.
Solomon built his fleet here, at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba near Elath, to sail for Ophir, and Jehoshaphat's ships were wrecked here later. Nelson Glueck dug Tell el-Kheleifeh in the 1930s and called it the site, though later work on the pottery has kept the question open.
Ezion-geber was a port city at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba, near Elath, where Solomon built his fleet of ships to trade with Ophir (1 Kings 9:26) and where Jehoshaphat's ships were later wrecked (1 Kings 22:48). Archaeologist Nelson Glueck excavated the mound of Tell el-Kheleifeh in the 1930s and identified it with the site, though later reanalysis of the pottery narrowed its date range and location debates continue.
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- Numbers 33:35
- Numbers 33:36
- Deuteronomy 2:8
- 1 Kings 9:26
- 1 Kings 22:48
- 2 Chronicles 8:17
- 2 Chronicles 20:36
