Syene
Town · today Aswan
Location well established About 880 km (550 miles) south of Jerusalem
Named in 3 Verses
- Isaiah 49:12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
- Ezekiel 29:10 Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
- Ezekiel 30:6 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
Locations from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Terrain from Natural Earth and NASA SRTM.
