The Places of 1 Esdras
1 Esdras names 42 places; Jerusalem, Judea and Babylon most often. 36 of them can be put on a map, 30 with confidence. They are read from the Septuagint in Brenton’s translation and each is matched to OpenBible.info or Pleiades, or left unlocated when neither knows where it stood.
- Located with confidence
- Location uncertain
- Mountain
Every place in 1 Esdras
The most often named first. Each place is set where its source puts it, and nowhere else; a place no source locates is listed and not drawn.
| Place | References | Source | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jerusalem | 1:1, 1:21, 1:31, 1:35, 1:37, 1:39, 1:44, 1:46, 1:49, 1:55, 2:4, 2:5 and 50 more | OpenBible.info | High |
| Judea (Judea, Jewry) | 1:26, 1:32, 1:33, 1:35, 1:37, 1:39, 1:46, 2:4, 2:5, 2:8, 2:12, 2:16 and 12 more | OpenBible.info | High |
| Babylon | 1:40, 1:41, 1:45, 1:54, 1:56, 2:15, 4:44, 4:53, 4:57, 4:61, 5:7, 6:15 and 7 more | OpenBible.info | High |
| Phoenicia (Phenice) | 2:17, 2:24, 2:25, 2:27, 4:48, 6:3, 6:7, 6:27, 6:29, 7:1, 8:19, 8:23 and 1 more | OpenBible.info | High |
| Coele-Syria (Celosyria) | 2:17, 2:24, 2:27, 4:48, 6:29, 7:1, 8:67 | Pleiades | Certain |
| Persia | 3:1, 3:9, 3:14, 5:6, 7:4, 8:80 | OpenBible.info | High |
| SyriaSyria (with Phenice) names the Persian satrapy 'Beyond the River'; no record fits cleanly. OpenBible Aram is the Damascus kingdom, Pleiades 1306 is an unlocated atlas label with an arbitrary point, so left unmatched. | 2:25, 6:3, 6:7, 6:27, 8:19, 8:23 | None | Not located |
| EgyptBeyond this plate. | 1:25, 1:26, 1:35, 1:37, 1:38 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Media | 3:1, 3:14, 6:23 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ahava (Theras) | 8:41, 8:61 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 355) |
| Babylonia (country of Babylon) | 6:17, 8:13 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Euphrates | 1:25, 1:27 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Lebanon (Libanus) | 4:48, 5:55 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Samaria | 2:16, 2:25 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Anathoth | 5:18 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Assyria | 7:15 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Azmaveth (Bethsamos) | 5:18 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 363) |
| Beeroth (Beroth) | 5:19 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 184) |
| Bethlehem (Bethlomon) | 5:17 | OpenBible.info | High |
| BetoliusCount 52 matches Nebo (Ezra 2:29) but the name resembles Bethel; two plausible candidates. | 5:21 | None | Not located |
| CalamolalusGarbled name in the 725-man entry that parallels Lod and Hadid; the equation is not clear enough to pick Lod or Hadid. | 5:22 | None | Not located |
| Carchemish (Carcamys) | 1:25 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Chadias and Ammidoi (Chadias, Ammidoi)No parallel entry in Ezra 2 / Neh 7; unidentified. | 5:20 | None | Not located |
| Chephirah (Caphira) | 5:19 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ecbatana | 6:23 | OpenBible.info | High |
| EthiopiaBeyond this plate. | 3:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Geba (Gabbes) | 5:20 | OpenBible.info | High |
| IndiaBeyond this plate. | 3:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Jericho (Jerechus) | 5:22 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Joppa (Joppe) | 5:55 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Kiriath-jearim (Kiriathiarius) | 5:19 | OpenBible.info | High |
| MacalonSame 122 count as Michmas (Ezra 2:27) but the name does not match; not clear, left unmatched. | 5:21 | None | Not located |
| Megiddo (Mageddo) | 1:29 | OpenBible.info | High |
| NephisCount 156 matches Magbish (Ezra 2:30) but the name does not; not clear. | 5:21 | None | Not located |
| Netophah | 5:18 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 454) |
| Ono (Onus) | 5:22 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ramah (Cirama) | 5:20 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Sidon (Zidon) | 5:55 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Tel-harsha (Thelersas) | 5:36 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 61) |
| Tel-melah (Thermeleth) | 5:36 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 101) |
| Tyre | 5:55 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Zion (Sion) | 8:81 | OpenBible.info | High |
Places from OpenBible.info’s Bible Geocoding Data, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and from Pleiades, © the Pleiades contributors, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Coastlines, lakes and rivers from Natural Earth; relief from SRTM and ETOPO1 elevation data by way of the AWS Terrain Tiles; all public domain. Scripture and the spellings of names from Brenton’s English translation of the Septuagint (1851), public domain.