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The Places of Joel

Joel names 15 places; Jerusalem, Zion and Valley of Jehoshaphat most often. 14 of them can be put on a map, 13 with confidence. The places and their references are OpenBible.info’s, which gathers what modern atlases and commentaries say about where each one stood.

Map of The Holy Land with the places named in Joel. Every place is listed in the table below.34°E35°E36°E30°N31°N32°N33°NJerusalemZionValley of JehoshaphatMount ZionSidonTyreValley of DecisionJerusalemZionEdomGreat SeaPhilistiaSalt SeaSidonTyreValley of ShittimN040 km
  • Located with confidence
  • Location uncertain
  • Mountain
The Holy Land, with the coasts and lakes as they lie today. 2 places lie beyond the plate and are in the table.

Every place in Joel

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.

PlaceReferencesSourceConfidence
Jerusalem2:32, 3:1, 3:6, 3:16, 3:17, 3:20OpenBible.infoHigh
Zion2:1, 2:15, 2:23, 3:16, 3:17, 3:21OpenBible.infoHigh
Valley of Jehoshaphat3:2, 3:12OpenBible.infoHigh
Eden2:3OpenBible.infoNot located
Edom3:19OpenBible.infoHigh
EgyptBeyond this plate.3:19OpenBible.infoHigh
Great Sea2:20OpenBible.infoHigh
Mount Zion2:32OpenBible.infoHigh
Philistia3:4OpenBible.infoHigh
Salt Sea2:20OpenBible.infoHigh
ShebaBeyond this plate.3:8OpenBible.infoHigh
Sidon3:4OpenBible.infoHigh
Tyre3:4OpenBible.infoHigh
Valley of Decision3:14OpenBible.infoHigh
Valley of Shittim3:18OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 182)

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.