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Decapolis

Decapolis (Biblical Place • Damascus • 33.519°N, 36.313°E): region. Referenced in Matt 4:25 , Mark 5:20 , Mark 7:31 . It is closely linked with Mark (New Testament • 16 Chapters): Mark (New Testament, 16 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah , Simon , James ( Jacob ), Moses , Levi , David . Key places: Jerusalem , Jordan , Nazareth , Galilee , Capernaum , Tyre . Opens with: "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;..."

Connected Genealogical Figures & Lineage

Peleg (Generation 15 • Messianic Line • Child of Eber (or Heber )): ( Genesis 10:25 , 1 Chronicles 1:19 , Luke 3:35 , Genesis 11:18-19 ) The first person of Scripture's genealogies to die after the Flood was someone born after the Flood : Peleg . (mentioned in Genesis 10 , Genesis 11 , 1 Chronicles 1 ) Shem (Generation 11 • Messianic Line • Child of Noah ): ( Genesis 5:32 , 1 Chronicles 1:4 , Luke 3:36 ) • ( Genesis 11:10-11 ) Shem was the oldest of Noah 's sons (Shem is older than Japheth - Genesis 10:21 , Ham is the youngest son- Genesis 9:22-24 ) (mentioned in Genesis 5 , Genesis 6 , Genesis 7 ) Abram/Abraham (Generation 20 • Messianic Line • Child of Terah ): ( Genesis 11:26 , 1 Chronicles 1:26-27 , Luke 3:34 , Genesis 25:7-10 ) G-d renamed Abram to Abraham ( Genesis 17:5 ). Abram was the first person called 'Hebrew' in the Bible ( Genesis 14:13 ). Abram was born 1948 years from the creation of the world. (mentioned in Genesis 11 , Genesis 14 , Genesis 17 ) Eber (or Heber) (Generation 14 • Messianic Line • Child of Shelah ): ( Genesis 10:24 , 1 Chronicles 1:18 , Luke 3:35 , Genesis 11:17-18 ) Eber/Heber is the person who became the father of the Hebrews . Abram was the first to be called a Hebrew in Scripture ( Genesis 14:13 ). (mentioned in Genesis 10 , Genesis 11 , Genesis 14 )

Biblical Geography & Sacred Architecture

Key geographical locations connected to this topic include Decapolis (region. Referenced in Matt 4:25 , Mark 5:20 , Mark 7:31 .) Amphipolis (Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 17:1 .) Neapolis (Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 16:11 .) Nicopolis (Ancient biblical location referenced in Titus 3:12 .)

Scripture Witness (KJV) & Canonical Context

Primary KJV scripture witnesses include Mark 5:20 : "And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel."; Matthew 4:25 : "And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee , and from Decapolis , and from Jerusalem , and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan ."; Mark 7:31 : "And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon , he came unto the sea of Galilee , through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.". Related canonical books and chapters: Mark (New Testament • 16 Chapters), Mark 5 ( Mark • Chapter 5 (43 verses)), Mark 7 (Mark • Chapter 7 (37 verses)).

Connected Topics & Entities Book/Chapter Verse Person Place Lexicon Theology Commentary

Topics, People & Places (36)

Decapolis
99% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Damascus • 33.519°N, 36.313°E

region. Referenced in Matt 4:25 , Mark 5:20 , Mark 7:31 .

Mark
99% New Testament
New Testament • 16 Chapters

Mark (New Testament, 16 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah , Simon , James ( Jacob ), Moses , Levi , David . Key places: Jerusalem , Jordan , Nazareth , Galilee , Capernaum , Tyre . Opens with: "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;..."

Mark 5
99% Chapter
Mark • Chapter 5 (43 verses)

And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chain... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , James ( Jacob ), Decapolis .

Mark 7
99% Chapter
Mark • Chapter 7 (37 verses)

Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem . And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their ha... Mentions: Moses , Yeshua the Messiah , Jerusalem , Tyre , Sidon , Galilee , Decapolis .

Matthew 4
99% Chapter
Matthew • Chapter 4 (25 verses)

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , Simon , James ( Jacob ), Galilee , Nazareth , Capernaum , Jordan , Syria .

Amphipolis
79% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 40.823°N, 23.839°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 17:1 .

Neapolis
77% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 40.944°N, 24.418°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 16:11 .

Nicopolis
75% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 39.024°N, 20.736°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Titus 3:12 .

Hierapolis
74% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 37.925°N, 29.125°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Col 4:13 .

Antipatris
73% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 32.100°N, 34.947°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 23:31 .

Apollonia
72% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 40.588°N, 23.353°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 17:1 .

Heliopolis
69% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • On • 30.108°N, 31.338°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Jer 43:13 (identified with On).

Paphos
68% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 34.754°N, 32.400°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 13:6 , Acts 13:13 .

Derbe
67% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 37.351°N, 33.271°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 14:6 , Acts 14:20 , Acts 16:1 , Acts 20:4 .

Peleg
65% Messianic Line
Generation 15 • Messianic Line • Child of Eber (or Heber)

( Genesis 10:25 , 1 Chronicles 1:19 , Luke 3:35 , Genesis 11:18-19 ) The first person of Scripture's genealogies to die after the Flood was someone born after the Flood : Peleg.

Thessalonica
65% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 40.632°N, 22.932°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 17:1 , Acts 17:11 , Acts 17:13 , Acts 27:2 , Phil 4:16 , 2 Tim 4:10 .

Zechariah 10
63% Chapter
Zechariah • Chapter 10 (12 verses)

Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain; so the Lord shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field. For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: ther... Mentions: Judah , Joseph , Ephraim , Egypt , Assyria , Gilead , Lebanon .

Areopagus
63% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Athens • 37.983°N, 23.733°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 17:19 , Acts 17:22 (identified with Athens ).

Dedan
62% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 26.625°N, 37.920°E

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-%27Ula. Referenced in Jer 25:23 , Jer 49:8 , Ezek 25:13 , Ezek 27:15 , Ezek 27:20 .

Shem
62% Messianic Line
Generation 11 • Messianic Line • Child of Noah

( Genesis 5:32 , 1 Chronicles 1:4 , Luke 3:36 ) • ( Genesis 11:10-11 ) Shem was the oldest of Noah 's sons (Shem is older than Japheth - Genesis 10:21 , Ham is the youngest son- Genesis 9:22-24 )

Apocrypha / Deuterocanonical • 16 Chapters

The First Book of the Maccabees ( Apocrypha / Deuterocanonical , 16 chapters). Key figures: Jacob/Israel , Judah , David , Mattathias , Simeon , Simon . Key places: Greece , Rome , Jerusalem , Egypt , Zimri , Samaria . Opens with: "AND it came to pass, after that Alexander the Macedonian, the son of Philip, who came out of the land of Chittim, and struck Darius king of ..."

Abram/Abraham
62% Messianic Line
Generation 20 • Messianic Line • Child of Terah

( Genesis 11:26 , 1 Chronicles 1:26-27 , Luke 3:34 , Genesis 25:7-10 ) G-d renamed Abram to Abraham ( Genesis 17:5 ). Abram was the first person called 'Hebrew' in the Bible ( Genesis 14:13 ). Abram was born 1948 years from the creation of the world.

Deuteronomy
61% Old Testament
Old Testament • 34 Chapters

Deuteronomy (Old Testament, 34 chapters). Key figures: Moses , Jacob/Israel , Laban , Moab , Abram/Abraham , Isaac . Key places: Jordan , Paran , Tophel , Laban , Hazeroth , Dizahab . Opens with: "These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between P..."

Eber (or Heber)
61% Messianic Line
Generation 14 • Messianic Line • Child of Shelah

( Genesis 10:24 , 1 Chronicles 1:18 , Luke 3:35 , Genesis 11:17-18 ) Eber/Heber is the person who became the father of the Hebrews . Abram was the first to be called a Hebrew in Scripture ( Genesis 14:13 ).

Jephunneh
61% Gen 25
Generation 25 • Child of Shelah

Caleb is the son of Jephunneh ( Numbers 13:6 ) who was a Kenizzite ( Numbers 32:12 ) of the tribe of Judah ( Numbers 13:6 ). Kenizzites were Canaanites ( Genesis 15:18-21 ). Judah 's first wife, Shua, was a Canaanite woman( Genesis 28:2 , 12 ). She bore him Er, Onan , and Shelah ( 1 Chronicles 2:3 ) but Er and Onan died. Ergo, it is likely Caleb is descended from Shelah .

Zechariah
61% Old Testament
Old Testament • 14 Chapters

Zechariah (Old Testament, 14 chapters). Key figures: Zechariah, Berechiah , Iddo , Judah , Jacob/Israel , Joshua . Key places: Jerusalem , Zion , Babylon , Shinar , Hadrach , Damascus . Opens with: "In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah , the son of Iddo the proph..."

Caleb
60% Gen 26
Generation 26 • Child of Jephunneh

Caleb is the son of Jephunneh ( Numbers 13:6 ) who was a Kenizzite ( Numbers 32:12 ) of the tribe of Judah ( Numbers 13:6 ). Kenizzites were Canaanites ( Genesis 15:18-21 ). Judah 's first wife (Shua's daughter) was a Canaanite woman( Genesis 38:2 , 12 ). She bore him Er, Onan , and Shelah ( 1 Chronicles 2:3 ) but Er and Onan died. Ergo, it is likely Caleb is descended from Shelah .

Iconium
60% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 37.884°N, 32.494°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 13:51 , Acts 14:1 , Acts 14:19 , Acts 14:21 , Acts 16:2 , 2 Tim 3:11 .

Cnidus
60% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 36.685°N, 27.374°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 27:7 .

Jacob/Israel
59% Messianic Line
Generation 22 • Messianic Line • Child of Isaac

( Genesis 21:26 , 1 Chronicles 1:34 , Luke 3:34 , Genesis 49:33 ) G-d changed Jacob's name to Israel ( Genesis 32:28 ).

ἀποκάλυψις
apokalypsis
G0602 Greek
an uncovering, laying bare, a revealing

an uncovering, laying bare, a revealing. Primary meaning: an uncovering, laying bare, a revealing, revelation. Strong's: disclosure. Lexical nuances: an uncovering , laying bare (Plut.). Metaph., a revealing , revelation : a disclosure of divine truth, or a manifestion from God: Lk 2:32 , Ro 2:5 8:19 16:25 , I Co 1:7 14:6 , 26 , II Co 12:1 , 7 , Ga 1:12 2:2 , Eph 1:17 3:3 , II Th 1:7 , I Pe 1:7 , 13 4:13 , Re 1:1 .†

Eleazar
59% Gen 27
Generation 27 • Child of Aaron

( Exodus 6:23 , Numbers 3:2 , Numbers 26:60 , 1 Chronicles 6:3 , 6:50 , 24:1 , Ezra 7:5 ) Moses , Aaron , and his sons were to camp before the tabernacle eastward, toward the sunrise ( Numbers 3:38 ).

Perez
59% Messianic Line
Generation 24 • Messianic Line • Child of Judah

( Genesis 38:29 , Genesis 46:12 , Numbers 26:20 , 1 Chronicles 2:4 , 1 Chronicles 4:1 )Perez was the twin brother of Zerah . ( Genesis 38:29-30 )

Zechariah 13
58% Chapter
Zechariah • Chapter 13 (9 verses)

In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more b... Mentions: David , Jerusalem .

Zephaniah
58% Old Testament
Old Testament • 3 Chapters

Zephaniah (Old Testament, 3 chapters). Key figures: Zephaniah, Amariah , Josiah , Amon , Judah , Baal . Key places: Jerusalem , Baal , Gaza , Ashkelon , Ashdod , Ekron . Opens with: "The word of the Lord which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah , the son of Hizkiah, in the days of..."

Acts 14
58% Chapter
Acts • Chapter 14 (28 verses)

And it came to pass in Iconium , that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed. But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the bre... Mentions: Iconium , Lystra , Derbe , Lycaonia , Antioch 1 .

Scripture Passages (24)

And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.

Matthew 4:25 (KJV)
Matthew 4 KJV

And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee , and from Decapolis , and from Jerusalem , and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan .

And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon , he came unto the sea of Galilee , through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis .

And he encamped against Joppa : and they of the city shut him out, because Apollonius had a garrison in Joppa :

While the ungodly were perishing, wisdom delivered a righteous man, When he fled from the fire that descended out of heaven on Pentapolis.

And setting out from thence they marched in haste against Scythopolis, which is distant from Jerusalem six hundred furlongs.

Twelve months after the dream, King Nebuchadnezzar was walking on the roof of his palace in Babylon . While on the roof, the king said, “Look at Babylon ! I built this great city. It is my palace. I built this great place by my power. I built this place to show how great I am.”

And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.

And out of the tribe of Benjamin ; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.

And from thence to Philippi , which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia , and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.

Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.

Therefore loosing from Troas , we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis ;

Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps.

And they were gathered together to build the city, and there fell down part of the wall of the brook that is on the east side, and he repaired that which is called Chaphenatha.

And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.

And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus , what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob , the kingdom of Og in Bashan .

And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah , and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon , and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin , these cities, which are called by their names.

I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.

So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.

And Resen between Nineveh and Calah : the same is a great city.

And Babylon , the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah .

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