. Sacred geography, and antiquities . Havilah mentioned in 1 Sam. 15 : 7, cannot be identical with theHavilah of Gen. 2 : 11 ; for this latter place lay north of the Persian Gulf,and it i|^ inconceivable that Saul should have smitten the Amalakites oversuch a space. Upon entering the wilderness of Shur the Israelites turnedsoutheast in the general direction of the shore of the Red sea,and came in four days journey to JEJUm (Numb. 33; 8, 9), sup-posed to be the modern Wady Ghurundel, which is compara-tively well supplied with water and shrubs. After anotherdays march they encamped by the Red se
. Sacred geography, and antiquities . Havilah mentioned in 1 Sam. 15 : 7, cannot be identical with theHavilah of Gen. 2 : 11 ; for this latter place lay north of the Persian Gulf,and it i|^ inconceivable that Saul should have smitten the Amalakites oversuch a space. Upon entering the wilderness of Shur the Israelites turnedsoutheast in the general direction of the shore of the Red sea,and came in four days journey to JEJUm (Numb. 33; 8, 9), sup-posed to be the modern Wady Ghurundel, which is compara-tively well supplied with water and shrubs. After anotherdays march they encamped by the Red sea. Numb. 33: they entered the wilderness of Sin which is betweenElim and Sinai (Ex. 16:1), and must be distinguished from thewilderness of Zin at Kadesh (Numb. 33:36, and elsewhere).Four days more of journeying brought them to the centralmountains of the peninsula in the wilderness of Sinai, wherethey abode more than eleven months (Ex. 19 :1; Numb. 10: 11),receiving from God the law and all the ordinances of the PLAIN EH-EAHAH, AlSiD CONVENT OF ST. : SINAI, M:-M^-
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