The Places of Zephaniah
Zephaniah names 18 places; Jerusalem, Zion and Ammon most often. 18 of them can be put on a map, 16 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 Zephaniah
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 | 1:4, 1:12, 3:1, 3:7, 3:11, 3:14, 3:16 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Zion | 3:14, 3:16, 3:18 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ammon | 2:8, 2:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ashkelon | 2:4, 2:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Canaan | 1:11, 2:5 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Moab | 2:8, 2:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ashdod | 2:4 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Assyria | 2:13 | OpenBible.info | High |
| CreteBeyond this plate. | 2:5 | OpenBible.info | High |
| CushBeyond this plate. | 3:10 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ekron | 2:4 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Fish Gate | 1:10 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gaza | 2:4 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gomorrah | 2:9 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 415) |
| Mortar | 1:11 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Nineveh | 2:13 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Second Quarter | 1:10 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Sodom | 2:9 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 477) |
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.