. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . rundel. Seetzen inclines to favor the identificationof el-Amdra with Marah. It seems almost certain,however, that Wady Ghurundel—whether it beMarah, as Lepsius and (although doubtfully)Seetzenthought, or Elim as Niebuhr, Robinson, and Kruse—must have lain on the line of march, and furnisheda camping station (so Mr. Hayman, original authorof this article). In this wady Seetzen found moretrees, shrubs, and bushes than anywhere else fromSinai to Suez. The scenery in this region becomes WIL WIL 1185 a succession of watercourses; and the Wady ei-Taiyibeh
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . rundel. Seetzen inclines to favor the identificationof el-Amdra with Marah. It seems almost certain,however, that Wady Ghurundel—whether it beMarah, as Lepsius and (although doubtfully)Seetzenthought, or Elim as Niebuhr, Robinson, and Kruse—must have lain on the line of march, and furnisheda camping station (so Mr. Hayman, original authorof this article). In this wady Seetzen found moretrees, shrubs, and bushes than anywhere else fromSinai to Suez. The scenery in this region becomes WIL WIL 1185 a succession of watercourses; and the Wady ei-Taiyibeh (= the good), connected with Ghurundel byUseit, is so named from the goodly water and vege-tation which it contains. These three wadys en-compass on three sides the Jebel ffummdm ; the sea, which it precipitously overhangs, being on thefourth. There seems no reason why all three shouldnot have combined to form Elim, or at any rate, asStanley suggests, two of them. From Elim, the nextstage brought the people again to the sea. This fact,. Thb Map is tnVen from Ayrcs Treasury/ of Bible Knowledge. and the water supply, and consequent great fertility,enjoyed by Tur on the coast (lat. 28° 13), would makeit seem probable that Tur was the locality intended ;but as it lies more than seventy miles, in a straightline, from the nearest probable assignable spot forElim, such a distance makes it a highly improbable75 site for the next encampment. The account in omits this encampment by the sea, and bringsthe host at once into the wilderness of Sin. Thisis probably the alluvial plain, called by Stanley theplain of Murkhah, which lower down the coast ex-pands into the broadest in the peninsula, and is there 1186 WIL WIL called el-Kaa, somewhere in tlie still northern por- !tion of which we must doubtless place the nextstations, Dophkah and Alush (Num. xxxiii. 12-14).In the wilderness of Sin occurred the first murmur-ing for food, and the first fall of manna. If, now,Rephidim be fo
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