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Today, after a delay which reflects how long it took to prepare this article, we present a list related to "Terror on Every Side!" – the life of Jeremiah.
Maps make me feel more at home. I like Bibles with maps; I like text books with maps; I like novels with maps. Maps help me to know where a character, or a story, is headed – whether it is Paul on his missionary journeys or the hero of a novel.
Until now, I have not produced a map related to the series Terror on Every Side! because it seemed too difficult to include all the places of interest when some are only a hundred metres apart while others are scattered over thousands of kilometres.
This article is a list of places of interest in the story of the life of Jeremiah, and they are grouped in categories from the smallest area (Jerusalem) to the largest area (the Middle East). The maps themselves have not yet been finished, but I hope that they will come in the article which, God willing, follows the next micro-tale instalment.
The largest list of places in the book of Jeremiah is given in Jeremiah 25 when God is commanding him to take the cup of God’s wrath to the kings and leaders of many nations (see article “A cup of anger” https://www.bibletales.online/a-cup-of-anger).
It is amazing to me just how many places are referred to in the book of Jeremiah, so much so that I have limited this list almost exclusively to places found in the book of Jeremiah, mostly ignoring books like 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, Ezekiel, Daniel, Habakkuk and Zephaniah.
Jerusalem
- Zion (mostly appears almost interchangeable with Jerusalem) (17 times: eg. Jeremiah 50:5, 28; 51:10, 24,35)
- The temple (11 times) / the Lord’s house (9 times: eg. Jeremiah 7:2; 19:14; 26:2; 36:6) / house of the Lord (23 times: eg. Jeremiah 20:2; 26:10; 36:10):
- court (Jeremiah 19:14; 26:2)
- upper court (Jeremiah 36:10)
- both courts (2 Kings 21:5; 2 Chronicles 33:5)
- Entry of New Gate (Jeremiah 26:10; 36:10)
- third entrance (Jeremiah 38:14)
- 3rd entrance to/from (entrance from palace to temple?) (Jeremiah 38:14)
- Upper Benjamin Gate (Jeremiah 20:2)
- Chamber of sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah (Jeremiah 35:4)
- Chamber of officials (Jeremiah 35:4)
- Chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum (doorkeeper) (Jeremiah 35:4)
- Chamber of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan (scribe) (Jeremiah 36:10)
- King’s palace(s) (Jeremiah 6:5; 9:21; 17:27; 30:18; 32:2):
- Court of the guard (located in the palace, Jeremiah 32:2) (Jeremiah 32:8, 12; 33:1; 37:21; 38:13, 28; 39:14-15)
- Cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son (Jeremiah 38:6-13) (located in the court of the guard, Jeremiah 38:6)
- Scribe’s (the secretary’s) chamber in palace (Jeremiah 36:12)
- Winter house in court of the king in the palace (Jeremiah 36:20-22)
- Chamber of Elishama the scribe (Jeremiah 36:20-21 – located in the palace (Jeremiah 36:12))
- King’s garden (against wall with a gate leading into the area between the walls) (Jeremiah 39:4; 52:7)
- Tower of Hananel (Jeremiah 31:38)
- Benjamin Gate (Jeremiah 37:12-13; 38:7)
- Corner Gate (Jeremiah 31:38)
- Horse Gate (Jeremiah 31:40)
- Middle Gate or middle of the gate (Jeremiah 39:3)
- People’s Gate? (Jeremiah 17:19)
- Potsherd Gate (Jeremiah 19:2)
- 2nd Quarter (home of Huldah) (2 Kings 22:14; 2 Chronicles 34:22; Zephaniah 1:10)
- Bakers’ street (Jeremiah 37:21)
- House of Jonathan the secretary/scribe (prison/dungeon) (Jeremiah 37:15-16, 20; 38:26)
- Valley of Ben Hinnom (Slaughter) / Topheth (Jeremiah 7:31-32; 19:2, 6; 32:35)
- Valley of the dead bodies (cemetery) (Jeremiah 31:40; 26:23? 2 Kings 23:6; 2 Chronicles 34:4)
- Brook Kidron (Jeremiah 31:40)
- Line to Hill Gareb and turn to Goah (Jeremiah 31:39)
Judah/Israel
- Abarim (Jeremiah 22:20)
- Anathoth (Jeremiah 1:1; 11:21, 23; 29:27; 32:7-9)
- Arabah (Jeremiah 39:4; 52:7)
- Azekah (Jeremiah 34:7)
- Bashan (Jeremiah 22:20; 50:19)
- Bethel (Jeremiah 48:13)
- Beth-haccherem (Jeremiah 6:1)
- Bethlehem (Jeremiah 41:17)
- Mount Carmel (Jeremiah 46:18; 50:19)
- Dan (Jeremiah 4:15; 8:16)
- Hill country of Ephraim (Jeremiah 31:6; 50:19)
- Mount Ephraim (Jeremiah 4:15)
- Geruth Chimham (Jeremiah 41:17)
- Gibeon (Jeremiah 41:16: Hananiah’s birthplace (Jeremiah 28:1); great pool (Jeremiah 41:12))
- Gilead (Jeremiah 8:22; 22:6; 46:11; 50:19)
- Plains of Jericho (Jeremiah 39:5; 52:8)
- Jordan (thicket/jungle of, Jeremiah 12:5; 49:19; 50:44)
- Kiriath-jearim (Uriah of, Jeremiah 26:20)
- Lachish (Jeremiah 34:7)
- Libnah (home town of Zedekiah’s mother’s father, Jeremiah 52:1)
- Meggido (2 Kings 23:29-30; 2 Chronicles 35:22)
- Mizpah (Jeremiah 40:6, 8, 10, 12-13, 15; 41:1, 3, 6, 10, 14, 16)
- Moresheth (Micah of, Jeremiah 26:18)
- Negeb (Jeremiah 13:19; 17:26; 32:44; 33:13)
- Ramah (Jeremiah 31:15; 40:1)
- Samaria (Jeremiah 23:13; 31:5; 41:5)
- Shechem (Jeremiah 41:5)
- Shephelah (Jeremiah 17:26; 32:44; 33:13)
- Shiloh (Jeremiah 7:12, 14; 26:6, 9; 41:5)
- Sodom and Gomorrah (gone!) (Jeremiah 23:14; 49:18; 50:40)
- Mount Tabor (Jeremiah 46:18)
The Middle East
- Ammon:
- Rabbah (Jeremiah 49:2, 3)
- Heshbon (Jeremiah 48:2, 34, 45; 49:3)
- Ai? (Jeremiah 49:3)
- Arabia (Jeremiah 25:24)
- Kingdom of Ararat (Jeremiah 51:27)
- Kingdom of Ashkenaz (Jeremiah 51:27)
- Assyria (Jeremiah 2:18, 36; 50:17-18)
- Babylon (Jeremiah 21:4; 27:16, 22; 29:1, 4, 10, 15, 20, 22, etc.) 171 references (88 times to the “king of Babylon”) (Sheshak in some translations of Jeremiah 51:41):
- Merathaim (Jeremiah 50:21)
- Pekod (Jeremiah 50:21)
- Euphrates River (Jeremiah 51:61-63)
- walls (Jeremiah 50:15; 51:12, 44), broad wall (Jeremiah 51:58)
- Buz (Jeremiah 25:23)
- Carchemish (by River Euphrates, Jeremiah 46:2)
- Chaldea (Jeremiah 21:4; 50:10; 51:24, 35) (Leb-kamai, Jeremiah 51:1) also 44 passages as “Chaldeans”
- Coastlands of Caphtor as origin of Philistines (Jeremiah 47:4)
- Cyprus / Kittim (Jeremiah 2:10)
- Dedan (Jeremiah 25:23; 49:8)
- Edom (Jeremiah 9:26; 25:21; 27:3; 40:11; 49:7, 17, 20, 22):
- Teman (Jeremiah 49:7, 20)
- Bozrah in Edom (Jeremiah 49:13, 22)
- Egypt (eg. Jeremiah 42:14-19: total 62 references):
- Nile (Jeremiah 2:18; 46:7-8)
- Tahpanhes (Jeremiah 2:16; 43:7-9; 44:1; 46:14)
- Pharaoh’s palace in Tahpanhes (Jeremiah 43:9)
- Memphis (Noph) (Jeremiah 2:16; 44:1; 46:14, 19)
- Migdol (Jeremiah 44:1; 46:14)
- Land of Pathros (Jeremiah 44:1, 15)
- Heliopolis (obelisks, Jeremiah 43:13)
- Thebes, Amon of (Jeremiah 46:25)
- Elam (Jeremiah 25:25; 49:34-39)
- Ethiopia / Cush (Jeremiah 13:23; 38:7, 10, 12; 39:16; 46:9)
- Euphrates River: hiding loincloth (Jeremiah 13:4-7); near Carchemish (Jeremiah 46:2, 6, 10); Assyria (Jeremiah 2:18); in Babylon (Jeremiah 51:61-63)
- “The desert” (those who live there “cut the corners of their hair”, Jeremiah 9:26; 25:23)
- Hazor (Jeremiah 49:28, 30, 33)
- Kedar (Jeremiah 2:10; 49:28)
- Lebanon /Sirion (Jeremiah 18:14; 22:6, 20, 23)
- Lud (Lydia) (Jeremiah 46:9)
- Media (Medes) (Jeremiah 25:25; 51:11, 28)
- Kingdom of Minni (Jeremiah 51:27)
- Moab (Jeremiah 48:9):
- Madmen (Jeremiah 48:2)
- Nebo (Jeremiah 48:1, 22)
- Kiriathaim (Jeremiah 48:1, 23)
- Horonaim (Jeremiah 48:3, 34; descent of – Jeremiah 48:5)
- Ascent of Luhith (Jeremiah 48:5)
- Dibon (Jeremiah 48:18, 22)
- Aroer (Jeremiah 48:19)
- Arnon River (Jeremiah 48:20)
- Holon (Jeremiah 48:21)
- Jahzah (Jeremiah 48:21)
- Mephaath (Jeremiah 48:21)
- Beth-diblathaim (Jeremiah 48:22)
- Beth-gamul (Jeremiah 48:23)
- Beth-meon (Jeremiah 48:23)
- Kerioth (Jeremiah 48:24; also 48:41 in NASB (“cities” in RSV/ESV))
- Bozrah in Moab (Jeremiah 48:24)
- Kir-hareseth/Kir-heres (Jeremiah 48:31, 36)
- Jazer, Sea of Jazer (Jeremiah 48:32)
- Sibmah (Jeremiah 48:32)
- Sihon (Jeremiah 48:45)
- Philistia (Jeremiah 25:20; 47:1, 4):
- Gaza (Jeremiah 25:20; 47:1, 5)
- Ashkelon (Jeremiah 25:20; 47:5, 7)
- Ekron (Jeremiah 25:20)
- Ashdod (Jeremiah 25:20)
- Put (Libya) (Jeremiah 46:9)
- Red Sea (Jeremiah 49:21)
- Sheba (Jeremiah 6:20)
- Sidon (Jeremiah 25:22; 27:3; 47:4)
- Syria:
- Damascus (Jeremiah 49:23-24, 27)
- Hamath (Jeremiah 39:5; 49:23; 52:9, 27)
- Riblah in the land of Hamath (Jeremiah 39:5; 52:9-10, 26-27)
- Arpad (Jeremiah 49:23)
- Tema (Jeremiah 25:23)
- Tyre (Jeremiah 25:22; 27:3; 47:4)
- Tarshish (Jeremiah 10:9)
- Uphaz (Jeremiah 10:9)
- Land of Uz (Jeremiah 25:20)
- Zimri (Jeremiah 25:25)
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May the Lord bless you and keep you all this week.
Mark Morgan
Bible Tales Online
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