Sacred Atlas

Where Is It Today?

Where Is Ashkelon Today?

Ashkelon is identified with Tel Ashkelon. See modern location, confidence level, Scripture references, coordinates, and source attribution.

Modern locationmodern identification under review
ConfidenceHigh
Scripture refs12

High confidence

Modern identification

Tel Ashkelon - modern identification under review

Coordinates31.6639, 34.5458
Kindsettlement
Claims3
Sources2

Scripture anchors

Josh 13:3Judg 1:18Judg 14:191 Sam 6:172 Sam 1:20Jer 25:20Jer 47:5Jer 47:7Amos 1:8Zeph 2:4Zeph 2:7Zech 9:5

Why this place is in the atlas

Ashkelon is a biblical place imported into Sacred Atlas from OpenBible.info with 12 Scripture references attached for review.

Claim ledger

foreignKeys[0] ancientId: ac87d4c, urlSlug: ashkelon, friendlyId: Ashkelon OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0 - High
identifications[0].coordinates latitude: 31.663889, longitude: 34.545833, precision: approximate OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0; upstream ODbL-1.0 - High
scriptureReferences Josh 13:3, Judg 1:18, Judg 14:19, 1 Sam 6:17 King James Version 1769 - Public-Domain - High