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1Ch_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, Måëáò ; the Latins, Melo. - Richard.