A body of salt water located between Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula, which the Israelites crossed after they left Egypt.
About Red Sea
The Red Sea is a narrow stretch of water that connects the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. It is about 2,172 kilometers (1,350 miles) long and 290 kilometers (180 miles) wide. The Red Sea lies between Africa and Asia. On the east side is the Arabian Peninsula. On the west side are the countries of Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia.
At the northwest end, the Sinai Peninsula extends into the sea. This creates the Gulf of Suez to the west and the Gulf of Aqaba to the east. The city of Suez is at the Gulf of Suez's northwestern end. The Suez Canal connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. At the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba are the ports of Eilat (in Israel) and Aqaba (in Jordan). The Red Sea is full of fish and other sea creatures that could provide food for people living in this region. However, there are few cities, roads, or farmable land along its shores.
Key References
Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.
So God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt arrayed for battle.
All Scripture References (32)
Exodus (5)
And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind that carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained anywhere in Egypt.
So God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt arrayed for battle.
Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.
Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days they walked in the desert without finding water.
And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.
Numbers (5)
Now since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”
Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey
They set out from Pi-hahiroth and crossed through the sea, into the wilderness, and they journeyed three days into the Wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.
They set out from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
They set out from the Red Sea and camped in the Desert of Sin.
Deuteronomy (3)
But you are to turn back and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”
Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the LORD had instructed me, and for many days we wandered around Mount Seir.
what He did to the Egyptian army and horses and chariots when He made the waters of the Red Sea engulf them as they pursued you, and how He destroyed them completely, even to this day;
Joshua (3)
For we have heard how the LORD dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction.
For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as He did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over.
When I brought your fathers out of Egypt and you reached the Red Sea, the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen as far as the Red Sea.
Judges (1)
But when Israel came up out of Egypt, they traveled through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.
1 Kings (1)
King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
Nehemiah (1)
You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt; You heard their cry at the Red Sea.
Psalms (9)
He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the waters on foot; there we rejoiced in Him.
The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.
Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.
wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.
but swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea. His loving devotion endures forever.
Isaiah (1)
Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
Jeremiah (1)
At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; their cry will resound to the Red Sea.
Acts (1)
He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
Hebrews (1)
By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to follow, they were drowned.