The Places of Habakkuk
Habakkuk names 6 places; Chaldea, Cushan and Lebanon most often. 6 of them can be put on a map, 3 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 Habakkuk
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chaldea | 1:6 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Cushan | 3:7 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 216) |
| Lebanon | 2:17 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Midian | 3:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Mount Paran | 3:3 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 229) |
| Teman | 3:3 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 116) |
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.