A port at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba, named alongside its neighbor Ezion-geber as the southern route Israel took past Edom’s territory (Deuteronomy 2:8). Centuries later it becomes a contested Judean/Edomite border town, changing hands repeatedly in the books of Kings and Chronicles.
📍 Elath — modern-day Near modern Eilat (Israel) / Aqaba (Jordan), at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba
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showing how the region actually looked in the biblical world gets added here as Mr. Librarian curates one,
the same way the encyclopedia's film shelf grows.
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