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ZERED, BROOK

(Heb. naḥal zereḏ)

A wadi marking the end of the wilderness wanderings of the children of Israel (Num. 21:12; Deut. 2:13-14) and forming the traditional border between Moab and Edom. Earlier scholars connected it with a tributary of Wadi Kerak or Wadi Môjib, but it is currently identified with Wadi el-µesa. Other references often associated with this wadi are the “brook of the willows” (Isa. 15:7), the “brook of the Arabah” (Amos 6:14), or simply “this dry stream bed” (2 Kgs. 3:16).

Beginning in the Arabian desert of eastern Transjordan, the Wadi el-µesa is 56 km. (35 mi.) long and flows in a northwesterly direction, emptying into the southern Ghor (southeastern plain) of the Dead Sea at eṣ-Òafî. The area is marginal for dryland agriculture, and recent survey information on 1074 sites found to the south of the wadi has shown that it has been inhabited from Palaeolithic to modern times with the exception of only a few periods.

Bibliography. B. MacDonald, The Wadi el-Hasa Archaeological Survey, 1979-1983, West-Central Jordan (Waterloo, Ont., 1988).

Paul J. Ray, Jr.

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ZERED, BROOK

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)