1 Chronicles 13:5

So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjathjearim.

Ver. 5. From Shihor of Egypt.] Called elsewhere the torrent of Egypt, Num 34:5 which some take for a river running near to Rhinocolura; but others for Nile, that ancient river whose seven streams of old are now become four, as travellers tell us. The name Sichor hath a notion of blackness in it, from the blackness of the water, or rather of the mud and slime that it brings down with it; or the black colour of the grounds and soils it passeth through. a

a The Ethiopians called it Sius; the Greeks, Mελας; the Latins, Melo. - Richard.