Bible Location
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Marah was the wilderness stop where the water was bitter until God made it drinkable. It is important because it is one of the first major tests of trust after crossing the sea. First appears in Exod 15:23.1
Coordinates
29.35, 32.93
First appears
Exod 15:23
AI summary: Marah is memorable because the bitterness of the water names the place and the spiritual moment. The people have been delivered from Egypt but quickly face scarcity and complaint, and God's provision there establishes a pattern that will repeat throughout the wilderness. The cross references present Marah as a place of testing, bitterness, healing, and early dependence on God.1
Latitude
29.35
Longitude
32.93
Bible references
3
Bitterness, a fountain at the sixth station of the Israelites (Ex. 15:23, 24; Num. 33:8) whose waters were so bitter that they could not drink them. On this account they murmured against Moses, who, under divine direction, cast into the fountain “a certain tree” which took away its bitterness, so that the people drank of it. This was probably the ‘Ain Hawarah, where there are still several springs of water that are very “bitter,” distant some 47 miles from ‘Ayun Mousa. 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
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.