Reference: PARAN, OR EL-PARAN
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Ge 14:6, a large tract of desert country lying south of Palestine, and west of the valley El Arabah, which runs from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Akaba. It was in and near this desert region that the Israelites wandered thirty-eight years. See EXODUS. It extended on the south to within three days' journey of Sinai, Nu 10:12,33; 12:16, if not to Sinai itself, De 33:2; Heb 3:3. On the north, it included the deserts of Kadesh and Zin, Nu 13:3,21,27. Here Hagar and Ishmael dwelt, 21/14/type/J2000'>Ge 21:14,21; and hither David, and afterwards Hadad, retired for a time, 1Sa 25:1; 1Ki 11:18. Burckhardt found it a dreary expanse of calcareous soil, covered with black flints. Some cities and cultivated grounds, however, and considerable patches of pasturelands, were anciently found in this region. The northeast part is traversed from east to west by ranges of hills.
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So Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a bottle of water and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child and sent her away; and she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
And the sons of Israel moved out of the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
Thus they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey, and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, searching out a resting place for them.
And afterward he moved the people from Hazeroth, and they pitched camp in the wilderness of Paran.
And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran; all those men were princes of the sons of Israel.
So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
And they told him and said, We came unto the land where thou didst send us, and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
And he said, The LORD came from Sinai and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from Mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of holiness, at his right hand the law of fire for them.
And Samuel died, and all Israel gathered together and lamented him and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honour than the house.