Places
Biblical places
Browse cities, rivers, regions, mountains, and borderlands from scripture. This place layer is built from the local glossary geography data and is meant to answer simple questions about where a place was, why it mattered, and which books are most strongly tied to it.
Featured places
Imperial city of exile and one of scripture’s strongest symbols of pride, captivity, and judgment.
Small Judean town linked to David, royal memory, and the nativity traditions of Jesus.
The promised land in broad outline and one of the Bible’s central geographies of inheritance, struggle, and identity.
Ancient city of trade, diplomacy, conflict, and one of the key crossroads of biblical memory.
Land of bondage, refuge, empire, memory, and one of the Bible’s great recurring symbolic geographies.
Northern region closely associated with Jesus’ ministry, discipleship, crowds, and teaching.
Border city of entry, conquest, memory, and one of the Bible’s most famous ancient urban sites.
The city at the heart of biblical kingship, temple worship, the passion narratives, and Christian memory.
River of crossing, boundary, purification, and new beginning in both Testaments.
Southern biblical region associated with Jerusalem, the temple, and the political-religious core of much of scripture.
Mountain of covenant, law, fear, revelation, and one of the defining sacred landscapes of scripture.
Town identified with Jesus’ upbringing and with the ordinary hiddenness before public ministry.
Imperial center looming behind the New Testament world of occupation, martyrdom, and mission.
Name for both a city and a region, often carrying the Bible’s tensions around division, rivalry, and unexpected encounter.