Zered

"=Zared, luxuriance; willow bush, a brook or valley communicating" with the Dead Sea near its southern extremity (Num. 21:12; Deut. "2:14). It is called the "brook of the willows" (Isa. 15:7) and" "the "river of the wilderness" (Amos 6:14). It has been" identified with the Wady el-Aksy.

"The fortress, a city on the north of Mount Ephraim; the" birthplace of Jeroboam (1 Kings 11:26). It is probably the same "as Zaretan (Josh. 3:16), Zererath (Judg. 7:22), Zartanah (1" "Kings 4:12), or the following."

A place in the plain of Jordan; the same as Zarthan (2 Chr. 4:17; 1 Kings 7:46). Here Solomon erected the foundries in which Hiram made the great castings of bronze for the temple.