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ELIM - E>@ - (strong trees), kjv@Exodus:15:27; kjv@Numbers:33:9) the second station where the Israelites encamped after crossing the Red Sea. It is distinguished as having had "twelve wells (rather ’fountains’) of waster, and three-score and ten palm trees." It is generally identified by the best authorities with Wady Garundel , about halfway down the shore of the Gulf of Suez. A few palm trees still remain, and the water is excellent.



ELIMELECH - E>@ - (my God is king), a man of the tribe of Judah and of the family of the Hezronites, who dwelt in Bethlehem
- Ephratah in the days of the Judges. (B.C. 1312.) In consequence of a great death in the land he went with his wife, Naomi, and his two sons, Mahlon and Chilion, to dwell in Moab, where he and his sons died without posterity. kjv@Ruth:1:2-3) etc.