Bible Location
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Hazazon-tamar is another name for En-gedi, the oasis on the western shore of the Dead Sea. It is important because it links the Abraham-era invasion story with the later well-known wilderness refuge. First appears in Gen 14:7.1
AI summary: Hazazon-tamar matters because the same dramatic oasis landscape appears in very different biblical settings. Genesis remembers it in the route of eastern kings, while Chronicles recalls it as the threatening approach of foreign armies in Jehoshaphat's day. The cross references present Hazazon-tamar as the En-gedi oasis of invasion, alarm, and strategic wilderness geography.1
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
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.