Places and geography

The places of Scripture

Cities, towns, mountains and regions where Scripture's story actually happened: each with where it sits in the land and every verse that names it.

Summary

111 places stand here, each on its own page with where it sits in the land and every verse that names it. 63 of them are settlements; the rest are the land itself and the things built on it.

39 cities.
24 towns.
3 structures.
12 mountains.
3 bodies of water.
9 geographic features.
21 regions.
Every place with coordinates is drawn on its own map, with its state marked known, probable or proposed.

The land these places sit in

Show the map

Reference map of ancient Palestine: the coast, the hill country, the Jordan rift and the Dead Sea, with the towns of the biblical narrative marked. — Reference map of ancient Palestine. George Adam Smith, Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land (1915), public domain. Nearly every place below sits on this sheet.

Cities

Walled settlements with a name in the narrative.

39 places

Structures

Built things: a temple, a tower, a pool.

3 places

Mountains

High places, where much of Scripture's meeting with God happens.

12 places

Bodies of water

Seas, lakes and rivers.

3 places

Geographic features

Valleys, plains, wildernesses and passes.

9 places

Keep studying

Seven doors out of the gazetteer: the Atlas and its plates, the people who walked this ground, the studies built on it, and the text itself.

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On this page

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Who walked here3

The places come from this site’s own gazetteer. The reference map is George Adam Smith, Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land (1915), public domain.