The Places of Daniel
Daniel (with Susanna and Bel) names 17 places; Babylon, Jerusalem and Judea most often. 17 of them can be put on a map, 14 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 Daniel
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babylon | 1:1, 2:12, 2:14, 2:18, 2:24, 2:48, 2:49, 3:1, 3:12, 3:97, 4:6, 4:29 and 9 more | OpenBible.info | High |
| Jerusalem | 1:1, 3:28, 5:2, 5:3, 6:11, 9:2, 9:7, 9:12, 9:16, 9:25 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Judea (Juda, Judea, Jewry) | 1:1, 1:2, 1:6, 2:25, 5:13, 6:14, 9:7, Bel 1:33 | OpenBible.info | High |
| EgyptBeyond this plate. | 9:15, 11:8, 11:24, 11:42, 11:43 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ulai (Ubal) | 8:2, 8:3, 8:6, 8:16 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 218) |
| Canaan (land of beauty) | 11:16, 11:41 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Persia | 11:2, Bel 1:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ammon | 11:41 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Dura (Deira) | 3:1 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 164) |
| Edom | 11:41 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Elam (Ælam) | 8:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Great Sea (great sea) | 7:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Moab | 11:41 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Shinar (Sennaar) | 1:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Susa | 8:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Tigris | 10:4 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Uphaz (Ophaz)Beyond this plate. | 10:5 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 205) |
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.