I am happy to have completed another map of the time of Jeremiah, which I hope will be interesting and/or useful for you.  If you have read the book of Jeremiah in the Bible or the series Terror on Every Side!, you will know that God made Jeremiah a prophet to the nations.  Our map today shows many more of the nations referred to by God in the prophecies of Jeremiah.  How many of them Jeremiah visited is never made clear in the Bible, but it would be hard for him to have been a real prophet to places he never visited.

 

Next week, God willing, there will be another micro-tale about a man whose wife and son are both much more famous than he is.  Do you have any idea whom it might be?  If you need any more clues, try these: he was an Israelite from the tribe of Levi and he actually had two wives – although one is better known than the other.  If you think that you can guess the answer, let me know your guess.

 

The timing of newsletters may be a little more unreliable in the next few weeks since we will be travelling (God willing) to India for the wedding of one of our daughters.

 

The Middle East

• Ammon – country
• Arabia (Jeremiah 25:24) probably closely related to “the desert” and the home of those who “cut the corners of their hair” (Jeremiah 9:26; 25:23) – region
• Kingdom of Ararat (Urartu) (Jeremiah 51:27) – country
• Kingdom of Ashkenaz (Jeremiah 51:27) – country
• Assyria (Jeremiah 2:18, 36; 50:17-18) – country/region
• 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) – city / region
      •    Merathaim – another name for Babylon (Jeremiah 50:21)
      •    Pekod (Jeremiah 50:21) – region probably near the city of Babylon
      •    Euphrates River (Jeremiah 51:61-63)
• Buz (Jeremiah 25:23) – region
• Carchemish (by River Euphrates, Jeremiah 46:2) – city
• Chaldea (Jeremiah 21:4; 50:10; 51:24, 35) (Leb-kamai, Jeremiah 51:1) also 44 passages as “Chaldeans” – region
• Coastlands of Caphtor as origin of Philistines (Jeremiah 47:4) – island
• Cyprus / Kittim (Jeremiah 2:10) – island
• Dedan (Jeremiah 25:23; 49:8) – city
• Edom (Jeremiah 9:26; 25:21; 27:3; 40:11; 49:7, 17, 20, 22) – country
• Egypt (eg. Jeremiah 42:14-19: total 62 references) – country
      •    Nile (Jeremiah 2:18; 46:7-8) – river
      •    Tahpanhes (Jeremiah 2:16; 43:7-9; 44:1; 46:14) – city
      •    Memphis (Noph) (Jeremiah 2:16; 44:1; 46:14, 19) – city
      •    Migdol (Jeremiah 44:1; 46:14) – city
      •    Land of Pathros (Jeremiah 44:1, 15) – region
      •    Heliopolis (On) (obelisks, Jeremiah 43:13) – city
      •    Thebes, Amon, a god of (Jeremiah 46:25) – city
• Elam (Jeremiah 25:25; 49:34-39) – country
• Ethiopia / Cush (Jeremiah 13:23; 38:7, 10, 12; 39:16; 46:9) – country
• 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)
• Kingdoms of Hazor – may mean kingdoms of unwalled villages and mean tribes of desert dwellers living in the area near Kedar (Jeremiah 49:28, 30, 33) – region/nation (exact location unknown)
• Kedar (Jeremiah 2:10; 49:28) – region
• Lebanon (Jeremiah 18:14; 22:6, 20, 23) – country and region
• Lud (Lydia) (Jeremiah 46:9) – country
• Media (Medes) (Jeremiah 25:25; 51:11, 28) – country
• Kingdom of Minni (Mannai) (Jeremiah 51:27) – country
• Moab (Jeremiah 48:9) – country
• Philistia (Jeremiah 25:20; 47:1, 4) – region
• Put (Libya) (Jeremiah 46:9) – country
• Red Sea (Jeremiah 49:21) – sea
• Sheba (Saba) (Jeremiah 6:20) – country
• Sidon (Jeremiah 25:22; 27:3; 47:4) – city
• Syria (Aram) – country
      •    Damascus (Jeremiah 49:23-24, 27) – city
      •    Hamath (Jeremiah 39:5; 49:23; 52:9, 27) – city
      •    Riblah in the land of Hamath (Jeremiah 39:5; 52:9-10, 26-27) – city
      •    Arpad (Jeremiah 49:23) – city
• Tema (Jeremiah 25:23) – city
• Tyre (Jeremiah 25:22; 27:3; 47:4) – city
• Tarshish (Jeremiah 10:9) – country synonymous with trading
• Uphaz (Jeremiah 10:9) – possibly Ophir or maybe a region in India
• Land of Uz (Jeremiah 25:20) – region
• Zimri (Jeremiah 25:25) – region (location unknown)

Licensing: The maps are derived from a map by Yiyi of the Middle East with a CC BY 3.0 licence which is also applied to this map in its three forms.

"Map of Judah and the Chaldean Empire" (https://www.bible-history.com/maps/images/jeremiah_judah_and_chaldean_empire.jpg)

"Jeremiah Map" for a different style of map using pins on Google Maps (https://theisraelbible.com/jeremiah-map/)

 

 

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