Rissah in Biblical History

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What is Rissah?
RIS'SAH
(a ruin, a worm), a station of Israel. Num 33:21-22. It has been identified with the Roman Rasa, 30 miles from Elath, near the hill now named Ras el-Kaa, or "head of the plain," north-west of Ezion-geber. Wilton would place it at 'Ain el-Jughamileh, 125 miles south-south-west of Beersheba; Reland locates it at el-Kusaby, 55 miles south-west of Beer-sheba.

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