place
En-dor
עֵין־דֹּר
En-dor, a Canaanite city where Saul consulted a medium before his final battle with the Philistines.
- verses
- 3
- first named
- Joshua 17:11
- last named
- Psalms 83:10
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 32.64°N · 35.39°E
Khirbet es Safsafa (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 5 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
En-dor in the text
En-dor was a Canaanite city located in the territory allotted to the tribe of Manasseh (Joshua 17:11). However, the Manassites failed to drive out the Canaanites from En-dor, so they continued to live among the Israelites.
The city is most notable as the place where King Saul sought the counsel of a medium on the eve of his final battle against the Philistines (1Sa.28.7). Desperate for guidance, Saul disguised himself and visited the medium, requesting her to conjure up the spirit of the deceased prophet Samuel. The medium succeeded, and Samuel's spirit informed Saul that he and his sons would die in battle the next day.
Psalm 83:10 mentions En-dor in the context of a prayer for God's judgment against Israel's enemies, referring to the defeat of Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River near En-dor (Judges 4-5). The city's exact location is uncertain, but it was likely situated in the Jezreel Valley, north of Mount Gilboa.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Stands in the same events as
- Inheritance1 event
- Manasseh1 event
- Gilead1 event
- Midian1 event
- Bashan1 event
- Settlement1 event
- Asher1 event
- Issachar1 event
- Machir1 event
- Sisera1 event
- Megiddo1 event
- Beth-shean1 event
and 10 more, ordered by how many events they share.
The pattern
Where En-dor is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
3 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in Joshua (1), 1 Samuel (1) and Psalms (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 3 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
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Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources