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The Places of Wisdom of Solomon

Wisdom of Solomon names 2 places. 1 of them can be put on a map, 0 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.

Map of Egypt, Sinai and Canaan with the places named in Wisdom of Solomon. Every place is listed in the table below.30°E35°E30°NRed SeaN0200 km
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Egypt, Sinai and Canaan, with the coasts and lakes as they lie today.

Every place in Wisdom of Solomon

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.

PlaceReferencesSourceConfidence
Red Sea (Red sea)10:18, 19:7OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 164)
The five cities (the five cities)Unnamed group of five cities (Sodom and its neighbours) destroyed by fire; a group, not a single place10:6NoneNot located

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.