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/juliasmith'>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 to Ael Paran, which is by the wilderness.
And Abraham will rise early in the morning, and take food, and a leathern bottle of water, and give to Hagar (putting upon her shoulder), and the child, and will send her away: and she will go forth and wander in the desert to the well of the oath.
And he will dwell in the desert Paran: and his mother will take to him a wife from the land of Egypt
And the sons of Israel will remove for their departure from the desert of Sinai; and the cloud will dwell in the desert of Paran.
And they will remove from the mountain of God, a way of three days: and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah removed before them, a way of three days, to search out for them a rest
And afterward the people removed from the enclosures, and they will encamp in the desert of Paran.
And Moses will send them from the desert of Paran, at the mouth of Jehovah; all of them chiefs, the heads of the sons of IsraeL
And they will go up and will search out the land from the desert of Zin even to Rehob, to go to Hameth.
And they will recount to him, and will say, We came to the land where thou sentest us, and also it flowed with milk and honey; and this its fruit
And he will say, Jehovah came from mount Sinai, and he rose up from Seir to them; he shone forth from mount Peran, he came from ten thousand of Kadesh; from his right hand a fire of law for them.
And Samuel will die; and all Israel will assemble together and lament for him, and bury him in his house in Ramah. And David will rise and go down to the desert of Paran.
For this was deemed worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he has greater honour of the house having built it.