Comments on: Where Is Paran in the Bible? http://easysignlanguagelessons.com/where-is-paran-in-the-bible/ Learn Sign Language Lessons Easily and FREE Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:34:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Martin S http://easysignlanguagelessons.com/where-is-paran-in-the-bible/comment-page-1/#comment-2727 Martin S Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:39:31 +0000 http://easysignlanguagelessons.com/where-is-paran-in-the-bible/#comment-2727 Do you mean this passage? Jude 1:14 Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, "Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, 15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him." In the passage you are quoting Moses is talking about what has already happened and I don't know about Paran being Mecca. Deuteronomy 33:1 Now this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. 2 And he said: "The LORD came from Sinai, And dawned on them from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran, And He came with ten thousands of saints; From His right hand Came a fiery law for them. Paran; El-Paran pa?´ran, (?????, pa?'ra?n, ????? ???, 'e?l-pa?'ra?n; ??????, Phara?n): (1) El-paran (Gen_14:6) was the point farthest South reached by the kings. Septuagint renders ???, 'e?l by ???????????, tere?binthos, and reads, “unto the terebinth of Paran.” The evidence is slender, but it is not unreasonable to suppose that this is the place elsewhere (Deu_2:8; 1Ki_9:26, etc.) called Elath or Eloth (???, 'e?l with feminine termination), a seaport town which gave its name to the Aelanitic Gulf (modern Gulf of ?Ak?aba), not far from the wilderness of Paran (2). (2) Many places named in the narrative of the wanderings lay within the Wilderness of Paran (Num_10:12; Num_13:21; Num_27:14; compare Num_13:3, Num_13:16, etc.). It is identified with the high limestone plateau of Et-Tih, stretching from the Southwest of the Dead Sea to Sinai along the west side of the Arabah. This wilderness offered hospitality to Ishmael when driven from his father's tent (Gen_21:21). Hither also came David when bereaved of Samuel's protection (1Sa_25:1). (3) Mount Paran (Deu_33:2; Hab_3:3) may be either Jebel Mak?rah, 29 miles South of ?Ain K?adis (Kadesh-barnea), and 130 miles North of Sinai (Palmer, Desert of the Exodus, 510); or the higher and more imposing range of mountains West of the Gulf of ?Ak?aba. This is the more probable if El-paran is rightly identified with Elath. (4) Some place named Paran would seem to be referred to in Deu_1:1; but no trace of such a city has yet been found. Paran in 1Ki_11:18 doubtless refers to the district West of the Arabah. Do you mean this passage?

Jude 1:14 Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, "Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, 15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him."

In the passage you are quoting Moses is talking about what has already happened and I don't know about Paran being Mecca.

Deuteronomy 33:1 Now this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. 2 And he said: "The LORD came from Sinai, And dawned on them from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran, And He came with ten thousands of saints; From His right hand Came a fiery law for them.

Paran; El-Paran
pa?´ran, (?????, pa?'ra?n, ????? ???, 'e?l-pa?'ra?n; ??????, Phara?n):
(1) El-paran (Gen_14:6) was the point farthest South reached by the kings. Septuagint renders ???, 'e?l by ???????????, tere?binthos, and reads, “unto the terebinth of Paran.” The evidence is slender, but it is not unreasonable to suppose that this is the place elsewhere (Deu_2:8; 1Ki_9:26, etc.) called Elath or Eloth (???, 'e?l with feminine termination), a seaport town which gave its name to the Aelanitic Gulf (modern Gulf of ?Ak?aba), not far from the wilderness of Paran (2).

(2) Many places named in the narrative of the wanderings lay within the Wilderness of Paran (Num_10:12; Num_13:21; Num_27:14; compare Num_13:3, Num_13:16, etc.). It is identified with the high limestone plateau of Et-Tih, stretching from the Southwest of the Dead Sea to Sinai along the west side of the Arabah. This wilderness offered hospitality to Ishmael when driven from his father's tent (Gen_21:21). Hither also came David when bereaved of Samuel's protection (1Sa_25:1).

(3) Mount Paran (Deu_33:2; Hab_3:3) may be either Jebel Mak?rah, 29 miles South of ?Ain K?adis (Kadesh-barnea), and 130 miles North of Sinai (Palmer, Desert of the Exodus, 510); or the higher and more imposing range of mountains West of the Gulf of ?Ak?aba. This is the more probable if El-paran is rightly identified with Elath.

(4) Some place named Paran would seem to be referred to in Deu_1:1; but no trace of such a city has yet been found. Paran in 1Ki_11:18 doubtless refers to the district West of the Arabah.

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