Places of the Bible
Ezion-geber
City
![Gulf of Akaba. Head of the Gulf. Showing mountains on the Hedjaz [i.e., Hejaz] side](https://cdn.biblionapp.com/places/ezion-geber_423_v1.jpg)
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Ezion-geber, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- Reign of Solomon · 1014 BC · 1 verse
- Reign of Jehoshaphat · 913 BC · 1 verse
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
The giant’s backbone (so called from the head of a mountain which runs out into the sea), an ancient city and harbour at the north-east end of the Elanitic branch of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Akabah, near Elath or Eloth (Num. 33:35; Deut. 2:8). Here Solomon built ships, “Tarshish ships,” like those trading from Tyre to Tarshish and the west, which traded with Ophir (1 Kings 9:26; 2 Chr. 8:17); and here also Jehoshaphat’s fleet was shipwrecked (1 Kings 22:48; 2 Chr. 20:36). It became a populous town, many of the Jews settling in it (2 Kings 16:6, “Elath”). It is supposed that anciently the north end of the gulf flowed further into the country than now, as far as ‘Ain el-Ghudyan, which is 10 miles up the dry bed of the Arabah, and that Ezion-geber may have been there.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 7 verses
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.