Bible Location
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The Zered was the brook or valley crossed by Israel on the eastern desert route near Moab. It is important because it marks a significant stage in the final approach toward the land. First appears in Deut 2:13.1
AI summary: Zered matters because wilderness movement is often structured by crossings. In Deuteronomy it helps measure the passing of the older generation, and in Numbers it appears as part of the onward movement toward Moab. The cross references present Zered as a brook of transition, passage, and generational change.1
=Zared, luxuriance; willow bush, a brook or valley communicating with the Dead Sea near its southern extremity (Num. 21:12; Deut. 2:14). It is called the “brook of the willows” (Isa. 15:7) and the “river of the wilderness” (Amos 6:14). It has been identified with the Wady el-Aksy. 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.