The Places of Nahum
Nahum names 12 places; Nineveh, Assyria and Thebes most often. 12 of them can be put on a map, 10 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 Nahum
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nineveh | 1:1, 1:8, 1:11, 1:14, 2:1, 2:5, 2:7, 2:8, 2:9, 2:11, 3:1, 3:4 and 2 more | OpenBible.info | High |
| Assyria | 1:13, 3:18 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Thebes | 3:8, 3:10 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Bashan | 1:4 | OpenBible.info | High |
| CushBeyond this plate. | 3:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Egypt | 3:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Elkosh | 1:1 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 77) |
| Lebanon | 1:4 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Libya | 3:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Mount Carmel | 1:4 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Nile | 3:8 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Put | 3:9 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 463) |
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.