The Places of Judith
Judith names 75 places; Bethulia, Jerusalem and Assyria most often. 47 of them can be put on a map, 45 with confidence. They are read from the Septuagint in Brenton’s translation and each is matched to OpenBible.info or Pleiades, or left unlocated when neither knows where it stood.
- Located with confidence
- Location uncertain
- Mountain
Every place in Judith
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.
| Place | References | Source | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| BethuliaJudith’s hill town, above the plain of Esdraelon. No site has been securely identified. | 4:6, 6:10, 6:11, 6:14, 7:1, 7:3, 7:6, 7:13, 7:20, 8:3, 8:11, 10:6 and 7 more | None | Not located |
| Jerusalem | 1:9, 4:2, 4:6, 4:8, 4:11, 4:13, 5:19, 9:1, 10:8, 11:13, 11:14, 11:19 and 5 more | OpenBible.info | High |
| Assyria (Assur) | 2:14, 5:1, 6:1, 6:17, 7:20, 7:24, 13:15, 14:3, 15:6, 16:4 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Judea | 1:12, 3:9, 4:1, 4:3, 4:7, 4:13, 8:21, 11:19 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Egypt | 1:10, 1:12, 5:10, 5:11, 5:12, 6:5 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Cilicia | 1:7, 1:12, 2:21, 2:25 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Damascus | 1:7, 1:12, 2:27, 15:5 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Dothan (Dothaim) | 4:6, 7:3, 7:18, 8:3 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Mesopotamia | 2:24, 5:7, 5:8, 8:26 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Moab | 1:12, 5:2, 5:22, 7:8 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Valley of Jezreel (Esdrelom, Esdraelon, Esdraelom) | 1:8, 3:9, 4:6, 7:3 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Choba (Chobai) (Choba, Chobai)Unidentified; Hobah near Damascus is a candidate but the route does not settle it | 4:4, 15:4, 15:5 | None | Not located |
| Ecbatana (Ecbatane) | 1:1, 1:2, 1:14 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Nineveh (Nineve) | 1:1, 1:16, 2:21 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Betomesthaim (Betomestham, Betomasthem)Unlocated town near Esdraelon and Dothan; no certain identification | 4:6, 15:4 | None | Not located |
| Canaan (Chanaan) | 5:9, 5:10 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Euphrates | 1:6, 2:24 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Galilee | 1:8, 15:5 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gilead (Galaad) | 1:8, 15:5 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Jordan | 1:9, 5:15 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Rages (Ragau) | 1:5, 1:15 | Pleiades | Certain |
| Samaria | 1:9, 4:4 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Syria | 1:12, 8:26 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Anti-Lebanon (Antilibanus) | 1:7 | Pleiades | Certain |
| ArabiaBeyond this plate. | 2:25 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ashdod (Azotus) | 2:28 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ashkelon (Ascalon) | 2:28 | OpenBible.info | High |
| BalamoUnidentified (perhaps Belmen/Ibleam); not matched | 8:3 | None | Not located |
| Bectileth (plain) (Bectileth)Unlocated plain three days from Nineveh; no record | 2:21 | None | Not located |
| BelmenUnidentified (perhaps Abel-meholah or Ibleam); not matched | 4:4 | None | Not located |
| BelthemUnidentified | 7:3 | None | Not located |
| BetaneUnidentified; no certain location in the 66 books or Pleiades | 1:9 | None | Not located |
| Beth-horon (Bethoron) | 4:4 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Beth-shan (Scythopolis) | 3:10 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Borders of Japheth (Japheth)Unlocated "borders of Japheth" south toward Arabia | 2:25 | None | Not located |
| Brook Mochmur (Mochmur)Unidentified brook | 7:18 | None | Not located |
| Brook of Egypt (river of Egypt) | 1:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Chaldea | 5:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| ChellusUnidentified (perhaps Chelous or Elusa), no certain match | 1:9 | None | Not located |
| CholaUnidentified | 15:4 | None | Not located |
| ChusiUnidentified | 7:18 | None | Not located |
| CyamonPossibly Jokneam but uncertain; not matched | 7:3 | None | Not located |
| EkrebelUnidentified (cf. Akrabbim?); not matched | 7:18 | None | Not located |
| EsoraUnidentified | 4:4 | None | Not located |
| EthiopiaBeyond this plate. | 1:10 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Geba (3:10) (Geba)Geba between Scythopolis and Esdraelon; the 66-book Gebas are Benjaminite, near Jerusalem, so not the same | 3:10 | None | Not located |
| Goshen (Gesem) | 1:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Heshbon (Esebon) | 5:15 | OpenBible.info | High |
| HydaspesNamed beside Tigris and Euphrates in Media/Elam; the Indian Hydaspes (Jhelum) is out of place and the author may mean the Choaspes, so no safe match | 1:6 | None | Not located |
| JemnaanOften read as Jamnia/Jabneel but not certain, so no match | 2:28 | None | Not located |
| Jericho | 4:4 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Kades (1:9) (Kades)Could be Kadesh-barnea in the south, but the list is not clear enough to be sure; not guessed | 1:9 | None | Not located |
| Kadesh-barnea (Cades-Barne) | 5:14 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Land of the Amorites (Amorites)No gazetteer record for the land of the Amorites | 5:15 | None | Not located |
| Land of the Chellians (Chellians)Unlocated people/land in the southern wilderness | 2:23 | None | Not located |
| Lebanon (Libanus) | 1:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| LudEchoes Lud (Lydia) but placed on the march in the hill country; location uncertain, not matched | 2:23 | None | Not located |
| Memphis | 1:10 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Midian (Madian) | 2:26 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Mount Carmel (Carmel) | 1:8 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Mount Sinai (Sina) | 5:14 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 463) |
| Mount Zion (Sion) | 9:13 | OpenBible.info | High |
| OcinaUnidentified coastal town | 2:28 | None | Not located |
| Persia | 1:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| PhudEchoes Put but is set on the Assyrian march near Cilicia; location uncertain, not matched | 2:23 | None | Not located |
| Rameses (Ramesse) | 1:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Red Sea (Red sea) | 5:13 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 164) |
| River Arbonai (Arbonai)Unidentified river in Mesopotamia | 2:24 | None | Not located |
| Sidon | 2:28 | OpenBible.info | High |
| SurPerhaps another form of Tyre but listed after Tyrus; not matched | 2:28 | None | Not located |
| Tahpanhes (Taphnes) | 1:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Tigris | 1:6 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Tyre (Tyrus) | 2:28 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Valley of Salem (valley of Salem)Unidentified | 4:4 | None | Not located |
| Zoan (Tanis) | 1:10 | 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. Scripture and the spellings of names from Brenton’s English translation of the Septuagint (1851), public domain.