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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.

Saul’s hunt for lost donkeys

Bible map of Saul hunting his lost donkeys, for The Casual English Bible

Saul's hunt for lost donkeys

Bible Book: 1 Samuel Type: Maps Location: Aijalon, Beth-horan, Bethel, Gibeah, Gilgal, Jabesh, Jebus, Jericho, Jerusalen, Kiriath-jearim, Mizpah, Nablus, Rachel's Tomb, Ramah, Shechem, Tree of Tabor Era: Heroes, kings, Prophets, Jews exiled

The good donkey herder Saul goes looking for his lost donkeys

1 SAMUEL 9

SAUL HUNTS DONKEY, FINDS PROPHET

Saul's dad, Kish, was a rich donkey herder living in the tiniest tribe of Israel, the tribe of Benjamin, just north of what is now Jerusalem. Then the town was called Jebus. Saul was "a good man...the best-looking man in Israel, and a head taller than the rest" (1 Samuel 9:2).

Kish had some donkeys that strayed one day. So he told Saul, “Take a servant with you and round up the strays.”

They searched up and down Ephraim’s hills, and in the territories of Shalishah and Shaalim, and all over Benjamin’s tribal land. No luck. By the time they reached the territory of Zuph, Saul told the young man traveling with him, “We’d better get home. Before long, my dad’s going to start worrying about us instead of the donkeys.” But the young man said, “Before we go home, there’s a man in the nearby town you might want to see. He serves God. People respect him. Whenever he says something will happen, it happens. Let’s go see him. Maybe he’ll help us finish what we started.”

That man was the prophet Samuel. And he was looking for the man God has selected to become the first king of Israel. Saul was that man.

Saul never found the lost donkeys. They got home some other way. By the time Saul got home, he had become the king of Israel...a job he didn't seem to want.

Saul hunts for lost donkeys

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