Topic
SHUR
A wilderness southwest of Palestine GEN 16:7; 20:1; 25:18; EXO 15:22; 1SA 15:7; 27:8
Passages on this topic · 6
- Genesis 16:7
Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.
- Genesis 20:1
Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.
- Genesis 25:18
They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.
- Exodus 15:22
Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
- 1 Samuel 15:7
Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.
- 1 Samuel 27:8
David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, on the way to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).