Ezion-Geber
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Ezion-Geber ( Biblical: Ġeṣyōn Geḇer; also Asiongaber) is a city only known from the Hebrew Bible, in Idumea, a seaport on the northern extremity of the Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba, in modern terms somewhere in the area of modern Aqaba and Eilat.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ezion-Geber” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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