The Places of Amos
Amos names 43 places; Egypt, Bethel and Samaria most often. 43 of them can be put on a map, 32 with confidence. The places and their references are OpenBible.info’s, which gathers what modern atlases and commentaries say about where each one stood.
- Located with confidence
- Location uncertain
- Mountain
Every place in Amos
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. References follow the chapter and verse numbering of the English Bible, which differs from the Septuagint’s in places.
| Place | References | Source | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| EgyptBeyond this plate. | 2:10, 3:1, 3:9, 4:10, 8:8, 9:5, 9:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Bethel | 3:14, 4:4, 5:5, 5:6, 7:10, 7:13 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Samaria | 3:9, 3:12, 4:1, 6:1, 6:8, 8:14 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Edom | 1:6, 1:9, 1:11, 2:1, 9:12 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Damascus | 1:3, 1:5, 3:12, 5:27 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Moab | 2:1, 2:2, 2:3 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ammon | 1:13, 1:15 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ashdod | 1:8, 3:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Beersheba | 5:5, 8:14 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gaza | 1:6, 1:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gilead | 1:3, 1:13 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gilgal | 4:4, 5:5 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 465) |
| Jerusalem | 1:2, 2:5 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Kir | 1:5, 9:7 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 80) |
| Mount Carmel | 1:2, 9:3 | OpenBible.info | High |
| NileBeyond this plate. | 8:8, 9:5 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Tyre | 1:9, 1:10 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Zion | 1:2, 6:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ashkelon | 1:8 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Bashan | 4:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Beth-eden | 1:5 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Bozrah | 1:12 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Brook of the Arabah | 6:14 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 44) |
| Calneh | 6:2 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 100) |
| CaphtorBeyond this plate. | 9:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Dan | 8:14 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ekron | 1:8 | OpenBible.info | High |
| EthiopiaBeyond this plate. | 9:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gath | 6:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gomorrah | 4:11 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 415) |
| Hamath | 6:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Harmon | 4:3 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 120) |
| Karnaim | 6:13 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Kerioth | 2:2 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 307) |
| Lebo-hamath | 6:14 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Lo-debar | 6:13 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 76) |
| Philistia | 6:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Rabbah | 1:14 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Sodom | 4:11 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 477) |
| Syria | 1:5 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Tekoa | 1:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Teman | 1:12 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 116) |
| Valley of Aven | 1:5 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 254) |
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.