The Places of Ezra
Ezra (2 Esdras) names 45 places; Jerusalem, Beyond the River and Persia most often. 45 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 Ezra
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jerusalem | 1:2, 1:3, 1:4, 1:5, 1:7, 1:11, 2:1, 2:68, 2:70, 3:1, 3:8, 4:6 and 39 more | OpenBible.info | High |
| Beyond the River | 4:10, 4:11, 4:16, 4:17, 4:20, 5:3, 5:6, 6:6, 6:8, 6:13, 7:21, 7:25 and 1 more | OpenBible.info | High |
| Persia | 1:1, 1:2, 1:8, 3:7, 4:3, 4:5, 4:7, 4:9, 4:24, 6:14, 7:1, 9:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Babylon | 2:1, 4:9, 4:12, 5:12, 5:13, 5:14, 5:17, 6:5, 7:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Babylonia | 1:11, 2:1, 5:12, 6:1, 7:6, 7:9, 7:16, 8:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ahava | 8:15, 8:21, 8:31 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 355) |
| Assyria | 4:2, 6:22 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Euphrates | 5:6, 6:6 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Judea | 5:8, 9:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Samaria | 4:10, 4:17 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Addon | 2:59 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 286) |
| Ai | 2:28 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 226) |
| Anathoth | 2:23 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Azmaveth | 2:24 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 363) |
| Beeroth | 2:25 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 184) |
| Bethel | 2:28 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Bethlehem | 2:21 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Casiphia | 8:17 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 298) |
| Chephirah | 2:25 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Cherub | 2:59 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 295) |
| Ecbatana | 6:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Elam | 4:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Erech | 4:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Geba | 2:26 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gilead | 2:61 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Great Sea | 3:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Hadid | 2:33 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Immer | 2:59 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 344) |
| Jericho | 2:34 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Joppa | 3:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Kiriath-jearim | 2:25 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Lebanon | 3:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Lod | 2:33 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Magbish | 2:30 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 88) |
| Media | 6:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Michmash | 2:27 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Nebo | 2:29 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 217) |
| Netophah | 2:22 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 454) |
| Ono | 2:33 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ramah | 2:26 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Sidon | 3:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Susa | 4:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Tel-harsha | 2:59 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 61) |
| Tel-melah | 2:59 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 101) |
| Tyre | 3:7 | 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.