SCRIPTORIA BIBLE

Arabah

approximate location

can refer to anywhere between the Sea of Galilee and the Gulf of Aqaba

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Skip the map 15°E 20°E 25°E 30°E 35°E 40°E 45°E 50°E 28°N 32°N 36°N 40°N Shephelah SHEPHELAH Salt Sea Salt Sea Pisgah Pisgah Negeb NEGEB Lebanon LEBANON Jordan Jordan Chinnereth Chinnereth Chaldea CHALDEA Benjamin Gate Benjamin Gate Bashan BASHAN Bahurim Bahurim Ai Ai Arabah ARABAH 100 mi scriptoria.digital Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0

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city site mountain known location approximate debated 13 places · c. AD 30-62 · modern coastline: harbors have silted up over two thousand years · drag and zoom · Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0

WITH JORDAN · SALT SEA · SHEPHELAH · NEGEB AND 8 MORE, named in the same passages

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Panorama of the Arabah.

Panorama of the Arabah.

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25 PASSAGES · 10 BOOKS

Deuteronomy 6
Joshua 7
1 Samuel 1
2 Samuel 3
2 Kings 1
1 Chronicles 1
Isaiah 1
Jeremiah 3
Ezekiel 1
Zechariah 1

COORDINATES 30.4169, 35.1514

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