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Ziklag

Where Ziklag sits on the map, and the 13 verses where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.

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Identified with
Tell esh Sharia
Coordinates
31.3912, 34.6816
Mentions
13 mentions

Coordinates and the modern identification come from the open atlas at OpenBible.info. For regions, peoples and large features there is no identification: the marked point only places the area on the map, and stands for neither a particular site nor its boundaries.

Passages where it appears

13 verses, in biblical order.

Joshua

1 Samuel

  • 1 Samuel 27:6

    And so, Achish gave Ziklag to him on that day. And for this reason, Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah, even to this day.

  • 1 Samuel 30:1

    And when David and his men had arrived at Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made an attack on the south side against Ziklag. And they had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire.

  • 1 Samuel 30:3

    Therefore, when David and his men had arrived at the city, and had found it burned with fire, and that their wives and their sons and daughters had been led away as captives,

  • 1 Samuel 30:14

    For indeed, we broke forth to the southern side of Cherethi, and against Judah, and to the south of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire.”

  • 1 Samuel 30:26

    Then David went to Ziklag, and he sent gifts from the prey to the elders of Judah, his neighbors, saying, “Receive a blessing from the prey of the enemies of the Lord,”

2 Samuel

  • 2 Samuel 1:1

    Now it happened that, after Saul died, David returned from the slaughter of Amalek, and he remained for two days at Ziklag.

  • 2 Samuel 4:10

    the one who reported to me and said, ‘Saul is dead,’ who was thinking that he announced good news, I apprehended. And at Ziklag I killed him who ought to have been given a reward for the news.

1 Chronicles

  • 1 Chronicles 4:30

    and in Bethuel, and in Hormah, and in Ziklag,

  • 1 Chronicles 12:1

    Also, these went to David at Ziklag, while he was still fleeing from Saul, the son of Kish. And they were very strong and distinguished fighters,

  • 1 Chronicles 12:20

    And so, when he returned to Ziklag, some fled over to him from Manasseh: Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Adnah, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zillethai, leaders of thousands in Manasseh.

Nehemiah

  • Nehemiah 11:28

    and at Ziklag, and at Meconah and in its daughter villages,

Routes that pass through here

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