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Shur is a location mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. When Hagar fled from Sarai (Abram's wife), the angel of the found her by the fountain in the way to Shur." (). Shur is also mentioned in I Samuel 15:7 "Then Saul slaughtered the Amalekites from Havilah all the way to Shur, east of Egypt." 〔Bible, New Living Translation〕 According to , Marah is located in the "wilderness of Shur." Easton's Bible Dictionary on Shur – An enclosure; a wall, a part, probably, of the Arabian desert, on the north-eastern border of Egypt, giving its name to a wilderness extending from Egypt toward Philistia The name was probably given to it from the wall (or shur) which the Egyptians built to defend their frontier on the north-east from the desert tribes. This wall or line of fortifications extended from Pelusium to Heliopolis. Scholars believe that the 'way of Shur' was located along the Wadi Tumilat -- an arable strip of land to the east of the Nile delta, serving as the ancient transit route between Egypt and Canaan across the Sinai.〔(''Israel: Ancient Kingdom Or Late Invention?'' ) Daniel Isaac Block, ed. B&H Publishing Group, 2008 ISBN 0805446796〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shur (Bible)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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