The Places of Hosea
Hosea names 26 places; Egypt, Assyria and Samaria most often. 26 of them can be put on a map, 18 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 Hosea
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EgyptBeyond this plate. | 2:15, 7:11, 7:16, 8:13, 9:3, 9:6, 11:1, 11:5, 11:11, 12:1, 12:9, 12:13 and 1 more | OpenBible.info | High |
| AssyriaBeyond this plate. | 5:13, 7:11, 8:9, 9:3, 9:6, 10:6, 11:5, 11:11, 12:1, 14:3 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Samaria | 7:1, 8:5, 8:6, 10:5, 10:7, 13:16 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Beth-aven | 4:15, 5:8, 10:5 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gibeah | 5:8, 9:9, 10:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gilgal | 4:15, 9:15, 12:11 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 465) |
| Jezreel | 1:4, 1:11, 2:22 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Lebanon | 14:5, 14:6, 14:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Bethel | 10:15, 12:4 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Admah | 11:8 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 414) |
| Aram | 12:12 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Aven | 10:8 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 334) |
| Baal-peor | 9:10 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 90) |
| Beth-arbel | 10:14 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gilead | 12:11 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gilead | 6:8 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 187) |
| MemphisBeyond this plate. | 9:6 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Mizpah | 5:1 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 150) |
| Mount Tabor | 5:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ramah | 5:8 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Shechem | 6:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Shittim | 5:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Tyre | 9:13 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Valley of Achor | 2:15 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 418) |
| Valley of Jezreel | 1:5 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Zeboiim | 11:8 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 470) |
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.