Numbers 21:12

From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.

Pitched in the valley of Zared, х Zaared (H2218)] - torrent bed or Wady of Zared (woody), now Wady el-Ahsy [Septuagint, eis pharanga zared], forming the natural boundary which separates Edom (now Jelab) from the northern kingdom of Moab (now Kerak). This torrent rises among the mountains near the castle el-Ahsy, on the route of the Syrian Haj, to the east of Moab, and flowing west by a deep chasm through the high table-land (its whole course being about 35 miles), issues into the Ghor, a little southeast of the Dead Sea, opposite the salt mountain of Usdum. At this lower part of its course it bears the name of Wady el-Kurahy, and is a perennial stream; but nearer its source, where it is called Ahsy, its channel is frequently dry in summer; and it was most probably at some point on the margin of its upper current that the Israelites pitched, and where they would have little difficulty in crossing into the territory of Moab (Robinson's 'Biblical Researches,' vol. 2:, pp. 555, 556; also 'Physical Geography of Palestine,' pp. 80, 167).