place

Ziklag

צִקְלַג

Ziklag was a city allotted to Judah and Simeon that was later given to David by the Philistine king Achish .

Where the story of Ziklag happens Ziklag, and 1 place the claims reach, framed to them: Ziklag, Negeb. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.ZiklagNegeb
Ziklag, and 1 place the claims reach
verses
12
first named
Joshua 15:31
last named
Nehemiah 11:28
feature
settlement
coordinates
31.39°N · 34.68°E
settlement31.39°N · 34.68°E

Tell esh Sharia (OpenBible)

Scholarship offers 8 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.

Description

Ziklag in the text

In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

Ziklag was a city located in the Negev region of Judah, initially allotted to the tribe of Judah (Jos.15.31) and later to Simeon (Jos.19.5; 1Ch.4.30). The Philistine king Achish of Gath gave the city to David when he fled from King Saul (1Sa.27.6). David and his men lived there for over a year, making raids on the Geshurites, Girzites, and Amalekites (1Sa.27.8-9). While David and his men were away, the Amalekites attacked and burned Ziklag, taking captive the women and children (1Sa.30.1-2). David pursued them, defeated them, and recovered all that was taken (1Sa.30.18-20). David sent some of the spoils from this victory to his friends in Judah (1Sa.30.26). After Saul's death, David departed from Ziklag to go to Hebron (2Sa.1.1). During David's reign, some Benjamites and Manassites defected to him at Ziklag (1Ch.12.1,20). In the time of Nehemiah, Ziklag was reinhabited by the people of Judah (Neh.11.28). Its exact location is uncertain.

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

and 22 more, ordered by how many events they share.

The pattern

Where Ziklag 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.

Where the name is written across the corpus. 12 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKS1–2 SAMUEL6 VERSES50 books and 763 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 12 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKS1–2 SAMUEL6 VERSES50 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT

12 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. Named in Joshua (2), 1 Samuel (4), 2 Samuel (2), 1 Chronicles (3) and Nehemiah (1).

Ziklag is named in 12 verses, and the name is written 15 times in them — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 61 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

Read it

Where to read it

Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 12, across 5 books. The name is written 15 times in them.

  1. Joshua2 verses

    15:3119:5

  2. 1 Samuel4 verses

    27:630:130:1430:26

  3. 2 Samuel2 verses

    1:14:10

  4. 1 Chronicles3 verses

    4:3012:112:20

  5. Nehemiah1 verse

    11:28

Onward

Where this page goes

Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

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

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