Biblical Place • On • 30.108°N, 31.338°E
Ancient biblical location referenced in Isa 19:18 (identified with On).
Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E
Ancient biblical location referenced in Isa 60:14 (identified with Jerusalem ).
Biblical Place • Engedi • 31.462°N, 35.392°E
Ancient biblical location referenced in Josh 15:62 (identified with Engedi ).
Interactive 3D Archaeological Tell • Joshua 10:31 & 2 Kings 18:14
3D archaeological site model from the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East documenting the fortified Judean city of Lachish (Tel Lachish)—the second most important city in the Kingdom of Judah after Jerusalem , besieged by Sennacherib in 701 BC and by Nebuchadnezzar II in 586 BC ( Jeremiah 34:7 ).
Interactive 3D Urban Scale Model • Daniel 1–5 & Jeremiah 50–51
Architectural scale model of Neo-Babylonian Babylon around 600 BC from the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem , showing the Euphrates River dividing the walled city, the Processional Way, the Ishtar Gate , Nebuchadnezzar's Southern Palace, and the Etemenanki ziggurat precinct.
Jeremiah • Chapter 39 (18 verses)
In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah , in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem , and they besieged it. And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah , in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up. And all th... Mentions: Zedekiah (or Matteniah), Judah , Jacob/Israel , Babylon , Jerusalem , Jericho , Riblah 1 , Hamath .
destruction, waste, loss
Primary meaning: destruction, waste, loss, perishing. Strong's: ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal). Lexical nuances: destruction , waste , loss , perishing (in π. , of money, v. MM, s.v.): Mt 26:8 , Mk 14:4 , Ac 8:20 , Ro 9:22 , I Ti 6:9 , II Pe 2:1 ; in special sense of the loss of eternal life, perdition , the antithesis of σωτηρία : Mt 7:13 , Jo 17:12 , Phl 1:28 3:19 , II Th 2:3 , He 10:39 , II Pe 2:3 3:7 , 16 , Re 17:8 , 11 ( DB , iii, 744).†
Derivation: from a presumed derivative of G622 (ἀπόλλυμι);
to devote to destruction, banish to God
To dedicate completely to God through destruction, execute holy ban against idolatrous nations (Deuteronomy 7:2, Joshua 6:21).
Derivation: Primitive root.
Jeremiah • Chapter 6 (30 verses)
O ye children of Benjamin , gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem , and blow the trumpet in Tekoa , and set up a sign of fire in Beth–haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate ... Mentions: Benjamin , Jacob/Israel , Jerusalem , Tekoa , Zion , Sheba .
Jonah • Chapter 3 (10 verses)
And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying, Arise, go unto Nineveh , that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh , according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three ... Mentions: Nineveh.
Ezekiel • Chapter 9 (11 verses)
He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand. And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter ... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Judah , Jerusalem .
devoted thing, ban, utter destruction
That which is irrevocably dedicated to God, ban of utter destruction; in holy war, complete consecration of pagan enemy to divine judgment without private plunder.
Derivation: From חָרַם (H2763) to dedicate, ban.
to destroy utterly, destroy, kill
Primary meaning: to destroy utterly, destroy, kill, to lose utterly. Strong's: to destroy fully (reflexively, to perish, or lose), literally or figuratively. Lexical nuances: Act., to destroy utterly , destroy , kill : Mk 1:24 , 9:22 , al.; τ. ψνχήν , Mt 10:28 , al.; to lose utterly : Mt 10:42 , al.; metaph., of failing to save, Jo 6:39 18:9 .
Derivation: from G575 (ἀπό) and the base of G3639 (ὄλεθρος);
Isaiah • Chapter 17 (14 verses)
The burden of Damascus . Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim , and the kingdom... Mentions: Ephraim , Jacob/Israel , Damascus, Aroer 1 , Syria , Rephaim .
Luke • Chapter 10 (42 verses)
After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harv... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , Mary , Sodom , Chorazin , Bethsaida , Tyre , Sidon .
2 Kings • Chapter 25 (30 verses)
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem , and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. And the city was besieged... Mentions: Zedekiah (or Matteniah ), Solomon , Seraiah , Zephaniah , Judah , Babylon , Jerusalem , Jericho , Riblah 1 , Hamath .
Acts • Chapter 22 (30 verses)
Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you. (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,) I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus , a city in Cilicia , yet brought up in this city a... Mentions: Saul , Yeshua the Messiah , Tarsus , Cilicia , Damascus , Jerusalem , Nazareth .
Ezekiel • Chapter 40 (49 verses)
In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me thither. In the visions of God brought he me ... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Zadok , Levi .
to devote to destruction, declare, invoke anathema
Primary meaning: to devote to destruction, declare, invoke anathema, to bind oneself under a curse. Strong's: to declare or vow under penalty of execration. Lexical nuances: to devote to destruction , declare or invoke anathema : absol., Mk 14:71 ; ἐαντόν , to bind oneself under a curse : Ac 23:12 , 14 23:21 (cf. καταναθεματίζω , and on the occurrence of the word in π. , v. Deiss., LAE , 92 f.; MM, VGT , s.v.).†
Derivation: from G331 (ἀνάθεμα);
Interactive 3D Cuneiform Prism • 2 Kings 18–19 & Isaiah 36–37
Six-sided baked clay prism discovered at Nineveh inscribed with the annals of Assyrian King Sennacherib's 701 BC campaign against Judah , famously declaring that he shut up ' Hezekiah the Judahite within Jerusalem , his royal city, like a bird in a cage'—without claiming to capture the city ( 2 Kings 19:32–36 ).
The First Book of the Maccabees • Chapter 6 (63 verses)
And king Antiochus was journeying through the upper countries; and he heard say, that in Elymais in Persia there was a city renowned for riches, for silver and gold; and that the temple which was in it was rich exceedingly, and that therein were golden shields, and breastplates, ... Mentions: Judah , Jacob/Israel , Judas , Eleazar , Persia , Babylon , Jerusalem , Media , Antioch 1 .
Isaiah • Chapter 22 (25 verses)
The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound... Mentions: Elam , Judah , David , Jehoiakim (or Eliakim ), Hilkiah , Kir , Jerusalem .
Joshua • Chapter 20 (9 verses)
The Lord also spake unto Joshua , saying, Speak to the children of Israel , saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses : That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge ... Mentions: Joshua , Jacob/Israel , Moses , Naphtali , Ephraim , Kedesh 1 , Galilee , Shechem , Hebron .
Isaiah • Chapter 24 (23 verses)
Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as wi... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Zion , Jerusalem .
