Dict: easton - Ezion-geber

easton:

Ezion-geber @ the giant's backbone (so called from the head of a mountain which runs out into the sea), an ancient city and harbour at the north-east end of the Elanitic branch of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Akabah, near Elath or Eloth kjv@Numbers:33:35; kjv@Deuteronomy:2:8). Here Solomon built ships, "Tarshish ships," like those trading from Tyre to Tarshish and the west, which traded with Ophir (kjvKings:9:26; kjv@2Chronicals:8:17); and here also Jehoshaphat's fleet was shipwrecked (kjvKings:22:48; kjv@2Chronicals:20:36). It became a populous town, many of the Jews settling in it ( kjv@2Kings:16:6, "Elath"). It is supposed that anciently the north end of the gulf flowed further into the country than now, as far as 'Ain el
- Ghudyan, which Isaiah:10 miles up the dry bed of the Arabah, and that Ezion-geber may have been there.