The Places of Micah
Micah names 28 places; Jerusalem, Zion and Samaria most often. 28 of them can be put on a map, 21 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 Micah
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jerusalem | 1:1, 1:5, 1:9, 1:12, 3:10, 3:12, 4:2, 4:8, 4:9, 4:11, 5:1, 6:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Zion | 1:13, 3:10, 3:12, 4:2, 4:8, 4:10, 4:11, 4:13 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Samaria | 1:1, 1:5, 1:6, 1:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| AssyriaBeyond this plate. | 5:5, 5:6, 7:12 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Egypt | 6:4, 7:12, 7:15 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Mount Zion | 3:12, 4:1, 4:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Moresheth-gath | 1:1, 1:14 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Achzib | 1:14 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 410) |
| Adullam | 1:15 | OpenBible.info | High |
| BabylonBeyond this plate. | 4:10 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Bashan | 7:14 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Beth-ezel | 1:11 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 181) |
| Beth-le-aphrah | 1:10 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 113) |
| Bethlehem | 5:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Bozrah | 2:12 | OpenBible.info | High |
| EuphratesBeyond this plate. | 7:12 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gath | 1:10 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gilead | 7:14 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gilgal | 6:5 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 465) |
| Lachish | 1:13 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Mareshah | 1:15 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Maroth | 1:12 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 80) |
| Moab | 6:5 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Mount Carmel | 7:14 | OpenBible.info | High |
| NimrodBeyond this plate. | 5:6 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Shaphir | 1:11 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 83) |
| Shittim | 6:5 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Zaanan | 1:11 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 344) |
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.