Bible Lands Overview

Bible Lands
• Southern Europe
• Middle East
• Asia Minor
• North Africa
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 Lands of the Bible
Important Ancient Lands

Important Ancient Lands

Macedonia
RomeGreece7 Churches
Medo
of Asia
Mediterranean Persian
Canaan
& Israel Babylonian
Empire
Egypt
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 Lands of the Bible Continents & Land Masses

Continents & Land Masses

Southern Europe

Asia Minor
Mediterranean
Sea
Middle East
Northern Africa
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 Garden of Eden

Garden of Eden

Mediterranean Garden
Israel of
Eden
Egypt
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 Noah’s Ark 1

Noah’s Ark
Mount
Mediterranean Ararat
Israel
(Future) (Turkey)
Egypt
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Mount
Noah’s Ark 2

Ararat
Turkey

Mediterranean Sea

Cyprus Israel
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  A view from space
Noah’s Ark Mt. Ararat

Mt. Ararat of Snow covered

Mt. Ararat and
Little Ararat
inactive volcanoes
located in eastern
Turkey. Mount
Ararat rises over 3
miles above sea
level. This
mountain is the
traditional resting
place of the Ark.
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 Tower of Babel Tower of Babel

Israel Tower
(Future)
Mediterranean
of
Babel
Egypt
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 Abraham’s Journeys Abraham’s Journey

Canaan
Mediterranean Haran &
Ur of the
Chaldeans
Egypt
(Iraq)
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Abraham’s Journey to Egypt
Abraham’s Journey to Egypt

Canaan
Mediterranean Sea
Nile Delta

i le
N
Egypt Sinai

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 S ea
Abraham in Canaan

a nean

Abraham’s
pastures
Canaan
Medite rr

Lot’s
pastures
Hebron
Sodom
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 Jacob left his
ea
Father’s home and
Wandering’s of Jacob

anean S
went to Haran to
flee from Esau and
to get a wife. He
had the vision of the
Canaan stairway to heaven.
Mediter r

Years later he
returned along the
same route.

Dead The
Hebron Sea Wanderings of
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Joseph’s Journey to Egypt
Joseph’s Journey to Egypt

Canaan
Mediterranean Sea
Nile Delta Joseph sold
to caravan
i le Potiphar
N
& Pharaoh
Sinai
Egypt

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 Joseph’s Families Journey Joseph’s Family to Goshen

to Goshen Due to the Famine

Fertile Nile Delta

Canaan

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 Great Sea
Route of the Exodus

(Mediterranean)
Canaan
Nile
Delta
Sinai
Peninsula
Egypt Traditional
Route of
the Exodus
Mt. Sinai
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 Traditional
Great Sea
Exodus Major Events Map

Route of
(Mediterranean)
Jericho
the Exodus
Canaan
Nile
Delta 12 Spies
Sinai
Peninsula
Quail/Manna
Egypt Mt. Sinai
Mt. Sinai
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 12 Tribes
of Israel Twelve Tribes Twelve Tribes of Israel

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Zebulu n N
Manasseh Asher
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I ssa cha
River
Naphtali Zebulun
Me d

Manasseh
Issachar Gad
Jordan

Gad
Ephraim Ephraim Dan
Dan Benjamin
Jericho Mt.Nebo
Benjamin Reuben
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Jerusalem
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Nations of Canaan

Other Nations

ci a
Hittit

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• Canaanites

Pho
Empir

Galilee
• Hittites e

M ed
Philistines

River
•
Canaan

Jordan
• Phoenicians
Ammon
• Moabites
• Ammonites Jerusalem

a
Dead Se
Moab
• Edomites tia
Edom
ili s

• Midianites
Ph

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cia
Solomon’s Israel

Israel
n
eni
a nea
P ho
i te rr

Galilee

Solomon’s
Me d

River

Shechem

Israel
Jordan

Israel
ia

Jerusalem
a
Dead Se
lis t
P hi

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 Tabernacle
Tabernacle Schematics 1

Entrance
Most
Holy
Holy Altar
Place Place
Laver

Courtyard
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 Israelite Camp & Tabernacle Tabernacle Schematics 2

North Naphtali
Asher
Dan
West East
Manasseh Levites
Issachar
Benjamin Zebulun
Ephraim Tabernacle Judah
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Simeon
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 Tabernacle
Tabernacle Schematics 3

Table of
Shewbread
Laver
Altar of
Incense Bronze
Ark of the Altar
Covenant
Menorah (lampstand)
Most Holy
Holy Place
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 Solomon’s Temple
Solomon’s Temple

20cu (30 ft)

Store Rooms

Most Holy
Holy Place Altar
Place

Sea of
Bronze

10cu (15 ft)

Approx 90 cubits (135 ft)
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 Herod’s Temple Herod’s Temple

Royal Most Holy

Place
Porch Holy
Main Temple
Place
Approx 670 cubits (1000 ft)

Court of
Priests Altar
Temple
Court of Israel Courtyard
Gentile’s
Court
Court of
Women

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n
Kingdom
Divided Kingdom of Israel

ci a
ane a
Syria

eni
Pho
iterr

Galilee
Divided
Med

River

Samaria

Israel
Kingdom
Jordan

Ammon

Jerusalem
a
Dead Se

Judah Moab
tia
ili s

Edom
Ph

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 Assyrian Empire
Assyrian Empire

Assyrian Empire
Judah

824 BC Egypt

640 BC
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 Babylonian Empire
Babylonian Empire

Median
Empire
Mediterranean (Medes)
Judah
Egypt Babylon
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Empire
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 Persian Empire

Persian Empire

Mediterranean
Persian
Judah Empire
Egypt
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 Alexander The Great
Alexander the Great

The Empire of Alexander

Mediterranean
Judah
Judah

Egypt
India
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The Roman Empire spread from Great Britain to
Israel and included Spain and Asia Minor.Roman Empire

Britain

Rome

Roman
Empire Judah

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 Sidon Caesarea
Tyre Philippi
Capernaum Bethsaida
Israel in the New Testament

Sea of Galilee
Nazareth
an
• Israel in

Jordan River
Caesarea
ran e

Samaria the New

iter

Joppa Testament
Me d

Jericho
Jerusalem

Hebron Dead Sea

Gaza

New Testament Israel

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 Childhood of Jesus

Sea of Galilee
Nazareth
an
The
ran e

Jordan River
Chi ldhood
iter

of Jesus
Me d

Jerusalem

Bethlehem Dead Sea

Egypt
Jesus’ Childhood Israel
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Antioch (Pisidian)
Modern Day Turkey
Iconium
Perga Lystra
Attalia Derbe

Antioch
Mediterranean Sea Seleucia

Paphos
Salamas
Cyprus Satellite Image - NASA

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 Paul’s Journeys Paul-2nd Missionary Journey

Rome Philippi
Thess
Athens
Corinth Ephesus
Mediterranean Sea
CaesareaIsrael
Jerusalem
Egypt

2nd Missionary Journey

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 Paul’s Journeys
Paul’s 3rd Journey

Paul-3rd Missionary Journey

Rome
Philippi
Thess
Athens Antioch
Corinth Ephesus
Mediterranean Sea Israel
CaesareaJerusalem
Egypt

3rd Missionary Journey

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 Paul’s Journey
To Caesarea

an
Paul to Caesarea

Sea of Galilee
a ne Caesarea
Paul’s
i te rr

Jordan River
26 M
iles 3
Journey
Med

to
8
M

Antipatris
Caesarea
ile
s

Jerusalem

Dead Sea
Acts 23:1-35

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 Paul’s Journey to Rome

Paul- Journey to Rome

Paul’s Journeys
Rome
Corinth
Malta
Mediterranean Sea
(Shipwreck) Israel
Caesarea
Jerusalem
Egypt

Paul’s Journey to Rome

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 Paul’s Letters to Churches
Rome Philippi
Thessalonica Galatia
Colosse
Corinth Ephesus
Mediterranean Sea
Israel
Egypt

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Corinth/Athens

GREECE O
R
I
Athens N

Aegean Sea
T
Corinth H
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Achaia A
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 GREECE
Corinth

Corinth
C
O
R
I
N
T
H
Achaia
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 Photo Courtesy of NASA

Athens

GREECE

A
T
Athens H

Aegean Sea
E
N
S

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MACEDONIA
Thessalonica

H
Thessalonica E
S
S
A
Berea N
O
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Aege R
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 7 Churches of Asia 7 Churches of Asia (Revelation)

1
2
4
3
1 Pergamos
6
7
5 2 Thyatira
3 Sardis
4 Smyrna
5 Philadelphia
6 Ephesus
7 Laodicea
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Modern Israel

a n ea

Le ba
Syria
iterr

Galilee
Med

West
River
Jordan
Modern
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Tel Aviv Bank
Modern Jordan
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Dead Se
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Noah’s Ark Size
■ The ark was 300 cubits long (450 Feet),
50 cubits wide (75 feet) and 30 cubits
tall (45 feet) Gen 6:15

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 BIBLE
WEIGHTS
10 Gerahs
= 1 Beka
Gerah
60 Minas
50 Shekels =
= 1 Talent
Beka
1 Mina
2 Bekas
= 1 Shekel
Mina
Shekel
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