Rephidim
ref'-i-dim (rephidhim, "rests"; Rhaphidin): A station in the
Wanderings, between the wilderness of Sin and the wilderness
of Sinai (Ex 17:1,8; 19:2; Nu 33:14). The host expected to
find water here; to their distress the streams were dry, and
water was miraculously provided. Palmer (Desert of the
Exodus, 158 ff) states cogent reasons for identi...
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A camping place of Israel in their wandering of forty years
Ex 17:1,8; 19:2; Nu 33:14,15...
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Ex 17:1,8; 19:2 The name means rests or stays, i.e. resting
places. The place lies in the march of the Israelites from
Egypt to Sinai. Its site is not certain, but it is perhaps
Wady Feiran, a rather broad valley about 25 miles from Jebel
Musa (Mount Sinai). Others place it in Wady es Sheikh, an
eastern continuation of Feiran, and about 12 mil...
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supports, one of the stations of the Israelites, situated in
the
Wady Feiran, near its junction with the Wady esh-
Sheikh. Here no
water could be found for the people to drink, and in
their
impatience they were ready to stone Moses, as if he
were the
cause of their distress. At the command of God Moses
smote "the
rock in Horeb," and a copi...
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("rests" or "stays") (Exodus 17:1; Exodus 17:8; Exodus
19:2). Here Israel first suffered from want of water, and
here they defeated Amalek. Captains Wilson and Palmer make
the battle in wady Feiran, near the ancient city of Feiran
(amidst traces of building and cultivation) under Mount
Serbal. But Holland (Canon Cook's essay on Exodus 16; 17; ...
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And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed
from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to
the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and
[there was] no water for the people to drink....
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For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come [to] the
desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there
Israel camped before the mount....
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And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where
was no water for the people to drink....
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And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness
of Sinai....
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