Cities & Towns
The towns where the biblical story was lived: Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Capernaum, Nineveh, Ephesus and the rest.
The city David captured and made his capital, where the ark was brought, where Solomon built the temple, which Babylon destroyed and the returning exiles rebuilt, where Jesus taught, was crucified and was raised, and where the church began.
The small ridge town of Judah, six miles south of Jerusalem: Rachel buried on the road to it, Ruth gleaning in its fields, Boaz redeeming her at its gate, David born and anointed in it, Micah naming it as the place a ruler would come from, and the Gospels placing the birth of Jesus there.
The hill village of lower Galilee where Jesus grew up, and whose name clung to him: Jesus of Nazareth.
The lakeside fishing town Jesus made his base: his own city, where Peter lived and the synagogue stood.
The oasis city of the Jordan valley, the first city Israel took in Canaan, and the town of Zacchaeus and blind Bartimaeus.
The high city of the patriarchs: Abraham's burial cave, and David's first capital.
The ancient oasis capital of Aram, on the road between Mesopotamia and Egypt, where Paul was converted.
The great Assyrian capital on the Tigris: the city Jonah was sent to, and the city Nahum saw fall.
The walled city on the Euphrates where the exiles lived and Daniel served, fallen to Cyrus in one night.
The great port of Asia Minor: Paul's longest stay, the temple of Artemis, the Ephesian letter, and the first church of Revelation.
The bustling isthmus city of Achaia where Paul stayed eighteen months and to which he wrote his longest pastoral letters.
The Roman colony of Macedonia where the gospel first took root in Europe: Lydia, the jailer, and the letter of joy.
The capital of the empire: the letter to the Romans, Paul's imprisonment, and the end of Acts.