Brook of Egypt

Identified as

Wadi al Arish

Certainty

Likely (61% of scholarship) · 3 other possible locations

Coordinates

31.146° N, 33.806° E

Brook of Egypt· Wadi· Shihor· Sihor· Brook

• מִצְרַ֫יִם+H5158L«H5158a=נַ֫חַל·Brook of Egypt
• נַ֫חַל·Brook of Egypt
• שִׁיחוֹר·Shihor

1. Numbers 34:5מִצְרַ֫יִם+H5158L«H5158a=נַ֫חַל · Brook of Egypt
   …where it will turn from Azmon, join the Brook of Egypt, and end at the Sea.
2. Joshua 13:3שִׁיחוֹר · Shihor
   …from the Shihor east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north (considered to be Canaanite territory)—that of the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, as well as that of the Avvites;
3. Joshua 15:4מִצְרַ֫יִם+H5158L«H5158a=נַ֫חַל · Brook of Egypt
   It proceeded to Azmon, joined the Brook of Egypt, and ended at the Sea. This was their southern border.
4. Joshua 15:47מִצְרַ֫יִם+H5158L«H5158a=נַ֫חַל · Brook of Egypt
   Ashdod, with its towns and villages; Gaza, with its towns and villages, as far as the Brook of Egypt and the coastline of the Great Sea.
5. 1 Kings 8:65מִצְרַ֫יִם+H5158L«H5158a=נַ֫חַל · Brook of Egypt
   So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more days—fourteen days in all.
6. 2 Kings 24:7מִצְרַ֫יִם+H5158L«H5158a=נַ֫חַל · Brook of Egypt
   Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
7. 2 Chronicles 7:8מִצְרַ֫יִם+H5158L«H5158a=נַ֫חַל · Brook of Egypt
   So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a very great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast for seven days.
8. Isaiah 23:3שִׁיחוֹר · Shihor
   On the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations.
9. Isaiah 27:12מִצְרַ֫יִם+H5158L«H5158a=נַ֫חַל · Brook of Egypt
   In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one.
10. Ezekiel 47:19נַ֫חַל · Brook of Egypt
    On the south side it will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, and along the Brook of Egypt to the Great Sea. This will be the southern boundary.
11. Ezekiel 48:28נַ֫חַל · Brook of Egypt
    The southern border of Gad will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, then along the Brook of Egypt and out to the Great Sea.