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The Places of Obadiah

Obadiah names 14 places; Edom, Mount Esau and Jerusalem most often. 14 of them can be put on a map, 11 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 Obadiah. Every place is listed in the table below.34°E35°E36°E30°N31°N32°N33°NMount EsauJerusalemMount ZionSamariaZarephathEdomMount EsauJerusalemMount ZionNegebCanaanGileadPhilistiaSamariaZarephathN040 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 Obadiah

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
Edom1:1, 1:2, 1:6, 1:8, 1:18OpenBible.infoHigh
Mount Esau1:8, 1:9, 1:19, 1:21OpenBible.infoHigh
Jerusalem1:11, 1:20, 1:21OpenBible.infoHigh
Mount Zion1:17, 1:21OpenBible.infoHigh
Negeb1:19, 1:20OpenBible.infoHigh
Canaan1:20OpenBible.infoHigh
Gilead1:19OpenBible.infoHigh
HalahBeyond this plate.1:20OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 192)
Philistia1:19OpenBible.infoHigh
Samaria1:19OpenBible.infoHigh
SepharadBeyond this plate.1:20OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 392)
Shephelah1:19OpenBible.infoHigh
Teman1:9OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 116)
Zarephath1:20OpenBible.infoHigh

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.