Red Sea is a sea or lake in the Bible, about 396 km (246 miles) south-west of Jerusalem. The King James Version names it in 15 verses, from Exodus 13:18 to Hebrews 11:29. The King James Version also gives the name Red Sea to 2 other places, listed on this page.
Exodus 13:18But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 15:4Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
Exodus 15:22So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
Deuteronomy 1
Deuteronomy 11:4And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;
Joshua 3
Joshua 2:10For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
Joshua 4:23For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
Joshua 24:6And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.
Nehemiah 1
Nehemiah 9:9And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
Psalms 5
Psalms 106:7Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
Psalms 106:9He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
Psalms 106:22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.
Psalms 136:13To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms 136:15But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Acts 1
Acts 7:36He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
Hebrews 1
Hebrews 11:29By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
Other places called Red Sea.
Red Sea, about 338 km (210 miles) south of Jerusalem.
A sea or lake, named in 4 verses.
Exodus 23:31And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
Judges 11:16But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
1 Kings 9:26And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
Jeremiah 49:21The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.
Red Sea, on the map at the same spot as the Red Sea above.
A sea or lake, named in 3 verses.
Exodus 10:19And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
Numbers 33:10And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.
Numbers 33:11And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
Questions about Red Sea.
Where is Red Sea in the Bible?
Red Sea is a sea or lake about 396 km (246 miles) south-west of Jerusalem. BibleLectio shows it on a painted map of the Bible’s world, with every verse that names it.
How many times is Red Sea named in the Bible?
The King James Version names Red Sea in 15 verses, in 7 books, from Exodus 13:18 to Hebrews 11:29. It also gives the name Red Sea to 2 other places.
Which people are named with Red Sea in the Bible?
The verses that name Red Sea also name Pharaoh, Moses, Og and Sihon.