It is accompanied in its general course by the Tigris. Its general direction is southeast but in a part of its course it runs westerly, and approaches the Mediterranean near Cilicia. The river is about eighteen hundred miles long. It was indeed only occasionally that the dominion of the Hebrews extended so far but it would appear that even Egypt, under Pharaoh Necho, made conquests to the western bank of the Euphrates. The Euphrates is a river of consequence in Scripture geography, being the utmost limit, east, of the territory of the Israelites. It overflows in summer like the Nile, when the snow on the mountains of Armenia, the nearest springs of both are but a few miles apart. Scripture often calls the Euphrates simply "the river," Exodus 23:31 Isaiah 7:20 8:7 Jeremiah 2:18 or "the great river," and assigns it for the eastern boundary of that land which God promised to the Hebrews, De 1:7 Joshua 1:4. We might well suppose that the Kuran, in very ancient times, as now, entered the Shat-el-Arab and perhaps still farther from its mouth. According to that view which places the Garden of Eden near the junction of the Tigris with the Euphrates, these might be regarded as the four rivers of Paradise. At present it enters the Shat-el-Arab forty miles above its mouth but formerly it flowed channel, east of the main stream. Sixty-two miles below the mouth of the Kerkhah, another large river, the Kuran, comes in from the east. Five miles below the junction of these two mighty rivers, the Shat-el-Arab receives from the northeast the Kerkhah, which has a course of upwards of five hundred miles. According to the recent researches of Chesney, it receives the Tigris at a place called Shat-el-Arab. On its banks stood the city of Babylon the army of Necho was defeated on its banks by Nebuchadnezzar Cyrus the Younger and Crassus perished after crossing it Alexander crossed it, and Trajan and Severus descended it." -Appleton's Cyc.Ī famous river of Asia, which has its source in the mountains of America, runs along the frontiers of Cappadocia, Syria, Arabia Deserta, Chaldea, and Mesopotamia, and falls into the Persian Gulf. ( 11:24 Joshua 1:4) Prophetical reference to the Euphrates is found in ( Jeremiah 13:4-7 46:2-10 51:63 Revelation 9:14 16:12) "The Euphrates is linked with the most important events in ancient history. ( Genesis 15:18) During the reigns of David and Solomon it formed the boundary of the promised land to the northeast. ( Genesis 2:14) We next hear of it in the covenant made with Abraham. The Euphrates is first mentioned in Scripture as one of the four rivers of Eden. The great hydraulic works ascribed to Nebuchadnezzar had for their chief object to control the inundation. The annual inundation of the Euphrates is caused by the melting of the snows in the Armenian highlands. The width of the river is greatest at the distance of 700 or 800 miles from its mouth -that is to say, from it junction with the Khabour to the village of Werai. The entire course is 1780 miles, and of this distance more than two-thirds (1200 miles) is navigable for boats. It rises from two chief sources in the Armenian mountains, and flows into the Persian Gulf. " It is most frequently denoted in the Bible by the term "the river." The Euphrates is the largest, the longest and by far the most important of the rivers of western Asia. Is probably a word of Aryan origin, signifying " the good and abounding river.
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