The Places of Baruch
Baruch names 9 places; Jerusalem, Babylon and Judea most often. 6 of them can be put on a map, 6 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 Baruch
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 | 1:2, 1:7, 1:9, 1:15, 2:2, 2:23, 4:8, 4:30, 4:36, 5:1, 5:5 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Babylon | 1:1, 1:4, 1:9, 1:11, 1:12, 2:21, 2:22, 2:24 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Judea (Juda) | 1:3, 1:8, 1:15, 2:1, 2:23, 2:26 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Egypt | 1:19, 1:20, 2:11 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Zion (Sion) | 4:9, 4:14, 4:24 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Teman (Theman)Two plausible records: Teman (Edom, a831506) and Tema (Arabian oasis, acd48d6); Baruch 3:22-23 pairs it with Hagarenes and merchants, which fits either, so left unmatched | 3:22, 3:23 | None | Not located |
| Canaan (Chanaan) | 3:22 | OpenBible.info | High |
| MeranMerran, a trading people/place with Theman; commonly taken as Midian but not certain, so unmatched | 3:23 | None | Not located |
| River Sud (Sud)River/canal at Babylon where the exiles lived; unidentified (Chebar a3d2f0a is a guess, not matched) | 1:4 | None | Not located |
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.