10 Bible Verses about Where Did The Red Sea Get Its Name From

Exodus 13:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle.

1 Kings 9:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

King Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

Exodus 14:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

Acts 7:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes

This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

Isaiah 63:11-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then he remembered the days of old, of Moses and his people. Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put in the midst of them his Holy Spirit, who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name, who led them through the depths? Like a horse in the desert, they did not stumble.

Psalm 106:7-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wondrous works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea. Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his mighty power. He rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry, and he led them through the deep as through a desert.

Nehemiah 9:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea,

Joshua 24:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“‘Then I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea. And the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. And when they cried to the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians and made the sea come upon them and cover them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness a long time.

Deuteronomy 1:40 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But as for you, turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.’

Numbers 33:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And they set out from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.

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