The Places of Zechariah
Zechariah names 38 places; Jerusalem, Zion and Egypt most often. 38 of them can be put on a map, 33 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 Zechariah
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 | 1:12, 1:14, 1:16, 1:17, 1:19, 2:2, 2:4, 2:5, 2:12, 3:2, 7:7, 8:2 and 30 more | OpenBible.info | High |
| Zion | 1:14, 1:17, 2:7, 2:10, 8:2, 8:3, 9:9, 9:13 | OpenBible.info | High |
| EgyptBeyond this plate. | 10:10, 10:11, 14:18, 14:19 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Tyre | 9:2, 9:3, 9:4, 9:5 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Babylon | 2:6, 2:7, 6:10 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Assyria | 10:10, 10:11 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Damascus | 9:1, 9:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ekron | 9:5, 9:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Lebanon | 10:10, 11:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Arabah | 14:10 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Aram | 9:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ashdod | 9:6 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ashkelon | 9:5 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Azal | 14:5 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 86) |
| Bashan | 11:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Benjamin Gate | 14:10 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Bethel | 7:2 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 204) |
| Corner Gate | 14:10 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Euphrates | 9:10 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gaza | 9:5 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Geba | 14:10 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 370) |
| Gilead | 10:10 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Great Sea | 14:8 | OpenBible.info | High |
| GreeceBeyond this plate. | 9:13 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Hadrach | 9:1 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 261) |
| Hamath | 9:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Jordan | 11:3 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Megiddo | 12:11 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Mount of Olives | 14:4 | OpenBible.info | High |
| NileBeyond this plate. | 10:11 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Philistia | 9:6 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Rimmon | 14:10 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 167) |
| Salt Sea | 14:8 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Shephelah | 7:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Shinar | 5:11 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Sidon | 9:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| South | 7:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Tower of Hananel | 14:10 | 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.