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Place · Water

River

Named in 10 verses across 6 books, first in Zechariah 9:10.

The dataset treats this record as another name for, or a duplicate of, Euphrates.

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In the Bible

All 1 verse in Zechariah, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Zechariah

  • Zechariah 9:10

    And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be broken. Then He will proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

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An event recorded in [Gen. 7](/gen#Gen.7) and 8. In Josh. 24:2, 3, 14, 15, the word “flood” (R.V., “river”) means the river Euphrates. In Ps. 66:6, this word refers to the river Jordan.

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