The Places of Psalms
Psalms names 58 places; Jerusalem, Zion and Egypt most often. 58 of them can be put on a map, 45 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 Psalms
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, most of all in the Psalms.
| Place | References | Source | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jerusalem | 48:3, 51:18, 68:29, 79:1, 79:3, 87:4, 87:6, 87:7, 99:9, 102:21, 116:19, 120:1 and 26 more | OpenBible.info | High |
| Zion | 2:6, 9:11, 9:14, 14:7, 20:2, 48:12, 50:2, 51:18, 53:6, 65:1, 69:35, 76:2 and 22 more | OpenBible.info | High |
| Egypt | 68:7, 68:31, 78:12, 78:43, 78:51, 80:8, 81:5, 81:10, 87:4, 105:17, 105:23, 105:28 and 11 more | OpenBible.info | High |
| Red Sea | 66:6, 77:16, 106:7, 106:9, 106:22, 114:3, 114:5, 136:13, 136:15 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 164) |
| Edom | 60:1, 60:8, 60:9, 83:6, 108:9, 108:10, 137:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Lebanon | 29:5, 29:6, 37:35, 72:16, 92:12, 104:16 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Mount Zion | 48:2, 48:11, 68:16, 74:2, 78:68, 125:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Canaan | 105:11, 105:12, 105:16, 106:38, 135:11 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Babylon | 87:4, 137:1, 137:7, 137:8 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Bashan | 22:12, 68:22, 135:11, 136:20 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ham | 78:51, 105:23, 105:27, 106:22 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 353) |
| Mount Hermon | 29:6, 42:6, 89:12, 133:3 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Philistia | 60:8, 83:7, 87:4, 108:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Jordan | 42:6, 114:3, 114:5 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Moab | 60:8, 83:6, 108:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Tyre | 45:12, 83:7, 87:4 | OpenBible.info | High |
| CushBeyond this plate. | 68:31, 87:4 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Euphrates | 72:8, 80:11 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gilead | 60:7, 108:8 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Meribah | 81:7, 106:32 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Mount Sinai | 68:8, 68:17 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 463) |
| ShebaBeyond this plate. | 72:10, 72:15 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Shechem | 60:6, 108:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Valley of Succoth | 60:6, 108:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Zoan | 78:12, 78:43 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Amalek | 83:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ammon | 83:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Aram-naharaim | 60:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Asshur | 83:8 | OpenBible.info | High |
| En-dor | 83:10 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 454) |
| Ephrathah | 132:6 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gath | 56:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gebal | 83:7 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 400) |
| Great Sea | 80:11 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Holy Place | 68:17 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Jaar | 132:6 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 340) |
| Kedar | 120:5 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Kishon | 83:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Massah | 95:8 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 490) |
| Meribah | 95:8 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Meshech | 120:5 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Midian | 83:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Most Holy Place | 28:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Mount Bashan | 68:15 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Mount Horeb | 106:19 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Mount Mizar | 42:6 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 238) |
| Mount Tabor | 89:12 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Negeb | 126:4 | OpenBible.info | High |
| OphirBeyond this plate. | 45:9 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 190) |
| Peor | 106:28 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Salem | 76:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Shiloh | 78:60 | OpenBible.info | High |
| TarshishBeyond this plate. | 72:10 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 305) |
| Valley of Salt | 60:1 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 261) |
| Zalmon | 68:14 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 147) |
| Zaphon | 48:2 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 359) |
| Zin | 29:8 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Zobah | 60:1 | 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.