place
Ziklag
צִקְלַג
Ziklag was a city allotted to Judah and Simeon that was later given to David by the Philistine king Achish .
- verses
- 12
- first named
- Joshua 15:31
- last named
- Nehemiah 11:28
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 31.39°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
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
- 1 Samuel 27Ziklag was assigned to David by Achish and was noted as still belonging to the kings of Judah.
- 1 Samuel 30Ziklag was burned and its people were carried away, then David returned there with the recovered plunder.
- 2 Samuel 1Ziklag was where David stayed for two days before the messenger arrived.
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