place
Golan
גּוֹלָן
Golan was a city of refuge in Bashan, allotted to the Levites of the family of Gershon and located in the territory of the half-tribe of Manasseh (Deu.4.43; Joshua 20:8; 21:27; 1Ch.6.71).
- verses
- 4
- first named
- Deuteronomy 4:43
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 6:71
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 32.78°N · 35.93°E
Saham al Jawlan (OpenBible)
The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.
Description
Golan in the text
Golan was a city located in the region of Bashan, east of the Jordan River, within the territory allotted to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was designated as one of the six cities of refuge, along with Kedesh and Hebron (Deu.4.43; Joshua 20:8). These cities served as places of protection for individuals who had unintentionally killed someone, providing them with a safe haven from avengers of blood until a proper trial could be conducted. Golan was also allotted to the Levites of the family of Gershon, along with other cities in the region, as part of their inheritance in the Promised Land (Joshua 21:27; 1Ch.6.71). This allocation of cities to the Levites ensured that they would be dispersed throughout the land and could carry out their priestly duties among the various tribes of Israel. The region surrounding Golan became known as the territory of Golan or Gaulonitis. Apart from its designation as a city of refuge and a Levitical city, no other specific events or details about Golan are recorded in the Bible.
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Direct connections
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The pattern
Where Golan 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.
4 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in Deuteronomy (1), Joshua (2) and 1 Chronicles (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 4, across 3 books.
Deuteronomy1 verse
Joshua2 verses
1 Chronicles1 verse
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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.
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