‘Now arise and cross the valley of the Zered.’ So we crossed the Zered Valley.

Now thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley, until that entire generation of the men of war had died from within the camp, just as the Lord had sworn to them.

Jeroboam, Solomon’s servant, the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zeredah whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also rebelled against the king.

The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath and Chinnereth,