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Philistia

approximate location

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ANCIENT NAMES

  • Pilistāja Akkadian

NAMES: PLEIADES, CC BY 3.0

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 Syria SYRIA Sidon Sidon Moab MOAB Gath Gath Edom EDOM Calneh Calneh Ashkelon Ashkelon Ashdod Ashdod Ammon AMMON Amalek AMALEK Tyre Tyre Babylon Babylon Philistia PHILISTIA 100 mi scriptoria.digital Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0

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city 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 MOAB 1 · AMMON · EDOM · AMALEK AND 8 MORE, named in the same passages

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How to cite: Scriptoria, Bible Atlas, 2026. scriptoria.digital. License CC BY 4.0.

Map: Scriptoria, CC BY 4.0. Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0. Coast and rivers: Natural Earth, public domain. Relief: ETOPO 2022 (NOAA NCEI), public domain. The credits are in each sheet's footer.

Panorama of a coastal plain in Philistia.

Panorama of a coastal plain in Philistia.

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22 PASSAGES · 14 BOOKS

Exodus 1
Judges 1
1 Samuel 1
2 Samuel 1
1 Chronicles 2
2 Chronicles 1
Psalms 4
Isaiah 4
Jeremiah 1
Ezekiel 2
Joel 1
Amos 1
Obadiah 1
Zechariah 1

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