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Bible maps make the Bible clearer

The Casual English Bible® maps tell Bible stories in a captivating way that engages even people who have never read the Bible. Lavishly detailed maps only make the stories of Jesus and others more compelling and easier to picture and to understand.

These 3D-style maps of Bible lands are created from blended high resolution satellite images, matched to precise elevation data from international space agencies.

How to search for maps

—Type “Galilee” into the Casual English Bible’s map search engine, below. Instantly, you’ll see dozens of beautiful maps…many in 3D style. Each one tracks with a different Bible story. These aren’t generic maps with a hundred place names.
—Type “Samson” into the Bible map search engine. You’ll see the tiny village where he lived in the Judean foothills below Jerusalem.
—Type “Corinthians” and you’ll see a gallery full of maps associated with Paul’s letters of 1, 2 Corinthians, to the church in Corinth, Greece.

3D sense of the lay of the land

Get a feel for the lay of the land:

—Ararat Mountains, where Noah’s boat ran aground. The Bible doesn’t say it was Mount Ararat.
—Judean hills where Joshua and the Israelites found most of their battles for the Promised Land. They avoided the plains, where their enemies with armored chariots had the advantage over Israel’s foot soldiers.
—Jesus’ 20-mile climb from Jericho and the Jordan River Valley upward half a mile high, to the crest of the Mount of Olives, overlooking Jerusalem.
—One surprise for some readers is the Jesus Triangle, a plug of ground between three cities. It’s where Jesus spent most of his ministry time. A person can walk that entire triangle in a single day. Type “Jesus triangle” to see it.

Map Abraham’s journey

map of Abraham's journey to Canaan

Map Abraham's journey

Bible Book: Genesis, Matthew Type: Maps Location: Abraham's road to Haran, Babylon, Babylonia, Baghdad, Canaan, Chaldea, Elam, Ephrates River, Fertile Crescent, Haran, Iraq, Mosul, Nineveh, Sumer, Ur Era: Israel’s founding fathers

Map Abraham's journey

Mesopotamia

From the ancient NYC

Mapping Abraham's journey begins in Mesopotamia. In Bible times, this part of the world was like the ancient version of the buzzing New York City, only much bigger. It was the vibrant hub of a civilization that emerged from land sandwiched between two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates. That's mainly in Iraq and western Iran.

This area was prime real estate for early human settlers because those rivers brought life to the arid land. The word "Mesopotamia" itself means "between the rivers" in Greek. It's a fair name because these rivers provided water for farming and transportation.

Mesopotamia such a big deal in Bible times because it became the stage where many biblical stories played out. This was where we would have found:

  • the famous city of Babylon
  • the Tower of Babel (that's the one where people tried to build a tower to reach the heavens, and it didn't go too well).
  • home to Abraham (city of Ur) the father of three major religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He came hailed from the city of Ur, which was right there in Mesopotamia.

Daniel in Mesopotamian lion's den

Also, Israelites spent decades in Mesopotamia during their exile to Babylon's land. That's where we come across the story of the prophet Daniel and the lions' den. The Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, who had a starring role in the Bible by destroying Jerusalem, ruled this land too.

Mesopotamia was like the biblical backdrop for many important events in the Bible. Those rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, made it into a thriving civilization.

Matthew traces the family tree of Jesus, back to southern Iraq, home of Abraham, father of the Jewish people. Matthew 1

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Abraham's journey
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Bible map of Assyria erasing Israel from the world map

Bible map of Assyria erasing Israel from the world map

Bible map of Assyria erasing Israel from the world map

Bible Book: Isaiah, Zephaniah Type: Maps Location: Ammon, Aram, Ashur, Assyria, Assyrian Empire, Babylon, Babylonia, Carchemish, Edom, Haran, Israel, Jerusalem, Judah, Moab, Nineveh, Samaria, Sidon, Syria, Tyre Era: Heroes, kings, Prophets, Jews exiled
Map of Assyria erasing Israel from the world map.
Assyria erases Israel from map
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Bible map Assyrian Empire 750 BC

Bible map Assyrian Empire 750 BC

Bible map Assyrian Empire 750 BC

Bible Book: 2 Kings, Jonah Type: Maps Location: Ammon, Aram, Ashur, Assyria, Assyrian Empire, Babylon, Babylonia, Carchemish, Edom, Egypt, Elam, Euphrates River, Haran, Israel, Jerusalem, Judah, Lebanon, Moab, Nile River, Nineveh, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Samaria, Sidon, Syria, Terga, Tigris River, Tyre Era: Heroes, kings, Prophets, Jews exiled

Assyrian Empire 750 BC

On the verge of overrunning Middle East

Assyria, based in what is now northern Iraq, began to push west, bullying city-state kingdoms into paying them taxes or tribute. They would conquer Syria first and kill the king in Damascus. Then, in 722 BC, they would erase Israel from the world map and deport the Jewish survivors. They would try to destroy Jerusalem, but didn't make it past the walls before something mysterious drove them away, possibly a bubonic-like plague, some scholars theorize.

Where to find more Bible maps

The Casual English Bible® has more than 900 Bible maps, many in 3D style. You can search for maps by place name, such as "Sea of Galilee."

Dedicated Bible map search engine

But you can also search for maps by Bible book, such as searching for all the maps in the book of Joshua. In addition, you can search by country, region, or era on a timeline, such as when Israel had kings or when Jesus was on earth. Here's a link to the dedicated Map Search Engine.  

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Assyrian Empire 750 BC
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Map Persian Empire in time of Ezra, Nehemiah

Map Persian Empire in time of Ezra, Nehemiah

Map Persian Empire in time of Ezra, Nehemiah

Bible Book: Ezra, Nehemiah Type: Maps Location: Arabian Sea, Aracbosia, Armenia, Babylonia, Bacteria, Black Sea, Cappadocia, Caria, Caspian Sea, China, Drangiana, Egypt, Elam, Gedrosia, Hyrgania, Iberia, India, Libya, Lydia, Maka, Margiane, Media, Mediterranean Sea, Mysia, Palestine, Parthia, Persia, Persian Empire, Persian Gulf, Phoenicia, Phrygia, Put, Red Sea, Sattagtdia, SoGdiana, Sumer, Syria, Thrace, Urartu Era: Back from exile
Map Persian Empire in time of Ezra, Nehemiah, with Persian Empire Provinces. Persian kings at the time reigned over provinces like Judah, from Libya and Egypt in the west to the border of India in the distant east. The empire stretched 2,800 miles (4,500 km) from the Indus Valley on India’s border in the distant east, to Egypt, Libya, and Ethiopia’s border in the southwest. That’s about Bangor, Maine to Los Angeles.
Persian Empire in time of Ezra, Nehemiah
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Map Persian Empire Provinces

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Map Persian Empire Provinces

Type: Maps Location: Arabian Sea, Aracbosia, Armenia, Babylonia, Bacteria, Black Sea, Cappadocia, Caria, Caspian Sea, China, Drangiana, Egypt, Elam, Gedrosia, Hyrgania, Iberia, India, Libya, Lydia, Maka, Margiane, Media, Mediterranean Sea, Mysia, Palestine, Parthia, Persia, Persian Empire, Persian Gulf, Phoenicia, Phrygia, Put, Red Sea, Sattagtdia, SoGdiana, Sumer, Syria, Thrace, Urartu Era: Back from exile, Prophets, Jews exiled
Map Persian Empire Provinces. King Xerxes reigned over 127 provinces from Libya and Egypt in the west to the border of India in the distant east. The empire stretched 2,800 miles (4,500 km) from the Indus Valley on India’s border in the distant east, to Egypt, Libya, and Ethiopia’s border in the southwest. That’s about Bangor, Maine to Los Angeles.
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Assyrian Empire at its strongest

Map of Assyrian Empire at its greatest strength in 660 BC

Assyrian Empire at its strongest

Bible Book: Nahum Type: Maps Location: Ammon, Aram, Ashur, Assyria, Assyrian Empire, Babylon, Babylonia, Carchemish, Edom, Egypt, Elam, Euphrates River, Haran, Israel, Jerusalem, Judah, Lebanon, Moab, Nile River, Nineveh, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Samaria, Sidon, Syria, Terga, Thebes, Tigris River, Tyre Era: Prophets, Jews exiled
Map of Assyrian Empire at peak of power. Assyria was at its strongest in 660 BC, during the ministry of prophet Nahum. It was all downhill after that, Nahum promised.
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