Ezion-Geber

Ezion - donor (also Ezion Geber, Ezion Geber, Vulgate: Aisongeber ) is mentioned several times in the Old Testament as a place on the Gulf of Aqaba, near Eilat located. Ezion - timer said to have been one of the first places where the Israelites camped after the Exodus. According to the reports in the first Book of Kings (1 Kings 9:26 NIV ) of the place was the starting point of the trade of Solomon in the Red Sea. During the regal period the port city was lost to the Edomites. For the period after about 900 BC, the place is no longer called in the sources.

The German researcher Fritz Frank held the Tell el- Kheleifeh for the biblical Ezion - giver. In his excavations 1938-1940 Nelson Glueck this thesis followed. Revaluations of archaeological finds by Gary Pratico, however, led to a dating of the site in the 8th to 6th century BC This is an identification of Ezion - timer at this point can not be verified.