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/bbe'>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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And the Horites in their mountain Seir, driving them as far as El-paran, which is near the waste land.
And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.
And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.
And the children of Israel went on their journey out of the waste land of Sinai; and the cloud came to rest in the waste land of Paran.
So they went forward three days' journey from the mountain of the Lord; and the ark of the Lord's agreement went three days' journey before them, looking for a resting-place for them;
After that, the people went on from Hazeroth and put up their tents in the waste land of Paran.
And Moses sent them from the waste land of Paran as the Lord gave orders, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.
So they went up and got a view of the land, from the waste land of Zin to Rehob, on the way to Hamath.
And they said, We came to the land where you sent us, and truly it is flowing with milk and honey: and here is some of the produce of it.
He said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from Seir; shining out from Mount Paran, coming from Meribath Kadesh: from his right hand went flames of fire: his wrath made waste the peoples.
And death came to Samuel; and all Israel came together, weeping for him, and put his body in its resting-place in his house at Ramah. Then David went down to the waste land of Maon.
And it was right for this man to have more honour than Moses, even as the builder of a house has more honour than the house.