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The Places of Jude

Jude names 3 places; Egypt, Gomorrah and Sodom most often. 3 of them can be put on a map, 1 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 Egypt, Sinai and Canaan with the places named in Jude. Every place is listed in the table below.30°E35°E30°NGomorrahSodomEgyptGomorrahSodomN0200 km
  • Located with confidence
  • Location uncertain
  • Mountain
Egypt, Sinai and Canaan, with the coasts and lakes as they lie today.

Every place in Jude

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
Egypt1:5OpenBible.infoHigh
Gomorrah1:7OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 415)
Sodom1:7OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 477)

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.