Places

The geography of the Bible.

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.

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Cities

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Antioch (Syrian)SyriaThird city of the Roman empire and the first great Gentile church; where the disciples were first called Christians and every Pauline mission was launched and reported.
AthensAchaiaThe city full of idols where Paul reasoned in the marketplace daily and then addressed the Areopagus on the unknown God, the appointed day, and the man God had ordained.
BabylonMesopotamia·c. 1894 BCE – 539 BCE (political prominence); later Seleucid and Parthian settlementAncient Mesopotamian city and imperial capital; site of the Israelite exile and a recurring biblical symbol of worldly power.
BozrahEdomFortified Edomite city named in the judgment oracles (Isa 34:6; 63:1; Jer 49:13; Amos 1:12).
CaesareaJudeaHerod's harbour city on the Mediterranean and the seat of the Roman governors of Judea — where Cornelius's household received the Spirit, and where Paul spent two years in custody before his appeal.
ColossaeLycus Valley, PhrygiaLycus Valley city of Phrygia, the letter's destination — a church Paul never personally visited (Col 2:1), founded by Epaphras; the smallest city to receive a canonical letter.
CorinthAchaiaThe Greek port city from which Paul wrote Romans during his three-month stay, and home of the church of 1–2 Corinthians.
DamascusSyriaThe Syrian city Saul was travelling to with letters of arrest when the light stopped him on the road; he entered it blind and left it preaching.
EphesusAsia MinorGreat harbor city of Asia, home of the Artemis temple; Paul's three-year base where the word grew mightily; addressed in Ephesians and first of the seven churches of Revelation.
GazaPhilistine coastChief Philistine city of the coastal road, judged in Amos 1:6-8 and Zephaniah 2:4; scene of Samson's end (Judg 16).
HierapolisLycus Valley, PhrygiaThird of the Lycus Valley triad (Col 4:13), famed for its hot springs; early tradition places Philip there.
JerichoJordan valleyThe city of palms whose walls fell flat at the seventh trumpet-circuit; Rahab's city, later rebuilt under a curse, and the road down from Jerusalem where the Samaritan proved neighbor.
JerusalemJudean Hill Country·Ancient and modernThe central city of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament; site of Solomon's Temple, the Second Temple, and Christ's crucifixion and resurrection.
JezreelNorthern IsraelAhab's summer capital beside Naboth's vineyard; the city of the dogs' prophecy, where Jezebel fell and Jehu's wheels rolled.
JoppaJudeaThe coastal town where Tabitha was raised and where Peter, praying on a rooftop, saw the sheet lowered three times that sent him to Cornelius.
LachishShephelahJudah's second city, besieged by Sennacherib — the siege carved in relief on his palace walls at Nineveh, corroborating the biblical record.
LaodiceaLycus Valley, PhrygiaColossae's wealthy neighbor (Col 4:15-16), addressee of a now-lost Pauline letter and later of Revelation's lukewarm rebuke (Rev 3:14-22) — its tepid aqueduct water the living metaphor.
MiletusAsia MinorThe port where Paul, hurrying to Jerusalem, summoned the Ephesian elders for the farewell address that is the only speech in Acts delivered to a Christian audience.
NicopolisEpirus, western GreeceCity on Greece's western coast where Paul determined to winter and summoned Titus (Titus 3:12).
NinevehAssyriaThe great city of Assyria, three days' journey across, that repented in sackcloth at Jonah's preaching — and a century later fell under Nahum's burden, "the bloody city."
No-Amon (Thebes)Upper EgyptEgypt's great southern capital of Amun, sacked by Ashurbanipal in 663 BC — Nahum's precedent against Nineveh: art thou better than No-Amon? (Nah 3:8).
PhilippiMacedoniaA Roman colony in Macedonia and the first city of Europe to hear the gospel — a riverside prayer meeting, a delivered slave girl, a midnight earthquake, and a jailer's household baptized before dawn.
RomeItalyThe capital of the empire and home of the mixed Jewish-Gentile church to which Paul wrote his gospel manifesto — and where he later arrived in chains.
SelaEdomEdom's rock-cut stronghold in the clefts (Obad 1:3; 2 Kings 14:7), identified by long tradition with the later Nabatean Petra.
Susa (Shushan)PersiaThe Persian winter capital where Esther was crowned, Haman built his gallows, and Nehemiah served the cup — the palace stage of the exile's later books.
ThessalonicaMacedoniaThe Macedonian capital whose magistrates Luke calls politarchs — a title once cited as his error and since confirmed by dozens of inscriptions.
TroasAsia MinorThe port on the Aegean where Paul saw the vision of the man of Macedonia — and where the narrative of Acts slips for the first time into we.
TyrePhoenician coastPhoenician island-fortress and merchant power, judged in Amos 1:9-10 and at length in Ezekiel 26-28.

Towns

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Mountains

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Bodies of Water

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Sea of GalileeLower Galilee·Ancient and modernA freshwater lake in northern Israel; the setting for much of Jesus' Galilean ministry.

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