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Persian Gulf in the Bible?

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The present location of the Persian Gulf was not explicitly named in the Bible.

Gen 11:

31 Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
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Abram traveled from Ur of the Chaldeans to Canaan along the two rivers. Ur was some tens of km away from the Persian Gulf.

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Esther 1:

1 This is what happened during the time of Xerxes, a the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush: 2 At that time King Xerxes reigned from his royal throne in the citadel of Susa.
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Susa wasn't far from the gulf.

Elam's southern border was the gulf. Jeremiah prophesied in 49:

38 I will set my throne in Elam and destroy her king and officials,” declares the Lord. 39 “Yet I will restore the fortunes of Elam in days to come,”
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Joel might have pointed to the gulf in 2:

20 I will remove the northerner far from you, and drive him into a parched and desolate land, his vanguard into the eastern sea, and his rear guard into the western sea; the stench and foul smell of him will rise, for he has done great things.
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While the gulf was not named in the Bible, its near cities were.
 
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