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The Places of Esther

Esther (with the Greek additions) names 7 places; Susa, India and Ethiopia most often. 7 of them can be put on a map, 7 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.

Map of From Egypt to Persia with the places named in Esther. Every place is listed in the table below.30°E35°E40°E45°E50°E25°N30°N35°N40°NSusaJerusalemBabylonSusaJerusalemBabylonEgyptN0400 km
  • Located with confidence
  • Location uncertain
  • Mountain
From Egypt to Persia, with the coasts and lakes as they lie today. 2 places lie beyond the plate and are in the table.

Every place in Esther

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.

PlaceReferencesSourceConfidence
Susa1:1b, 1:2, 2:3, 2:5, 2:8, 3:15, 4:8, 4:16, 8:12r, 8:14, 8:15, 9:6 and 4 moreOpenBible.infoHigh
IndiaBeyond this plate.1:1s, 3:12, 3:13a, 8:9, 8:12bOpenBible.infoHigh
EthiopiaBeyond this plate.3:12, 3:13a, 8:9, 8:12bOpenBible.infoHigh
Jerusalem1:1c, 2:6, 10:3lOpenBible.infoHigh
Babylon1:1c, 2:6OpenBible.infoHigh
Egypt4:17gOpenBible.infoHigh
Judea1:1cOpenBible.infoHigh

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.