Geographic Border Locations:

Arabah

    The name means "Plain, Desert".  It is a deep valley with a flat plain at the bottom running from the Sea of Galilee in the north, through the Dead Sea and on to the Gulf of Aqabah on the Red Sea.  It is part of the Great Rift Valley running down to Mozambique in east Africa.  The Jordan River runs through the middle of this valley from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea.

Dt 3:17
the Arabah also, and the Jordan and the border of it, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

Dt 4:49
and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

Jsh 3:16
that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over right against Jericho.

Jsh 12:3
and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:

Jsh 18:18
It passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down to the Arabah.

2Kg 14:25
He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath Hepher.

Am 6:14
For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel,”
    says Yahweh, the God of Armies;
“and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah.”

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