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FiQUKE 1. — Location of Ezion-Geber. 



shore of the north end of the Gulf of 'Aqabah.^ This was also in 

 harmony with the statement in I Kings 9 : 26 : 



King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on 

 the shore of the Red Sea, in the Land of Edom. 



Until the actual site of Solomon's seaport was discovered and ex- 

 cavated, the notion was current that it was to be located at a place 



1 Glueck, Nelson, Explorations In Eastern Palestine. Bull. Amer. Schools Oriental Res., 

 No. 65, p. 12, February 1937 ; The first campaign at Tell El-Kheleifeh (Ezion-Geber). Ibid., 

 No. 71, pp. 4-5, October 1938 ; Explorations In Eastern Palestine. Ann. Amer. Schools 

 Oriental Res., vol. 15, pp. 26-27, 42-45, 47-48, 138-139, 1934-1935. 



