Sacred Atlas

Where Is It Today?

Where Is Ekron Today?

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

Modern locationmodern identification under review
ConfidenceHigh
Scripture refs20

High confidence

Modern identification

Tel Miqne - modern identification under review

Coordinates31.7775, 34.8519
Kindsettlement
Claims3
Sources2

Scripture anchors

Josh 13:3Josh 15:11Josh 15:45Josh 15:46Josh 19:43Judg 1:181 Sam 5:101 Sam 6:161 Sam 6:171 Sam 7:141 Sam 17:522 Kgs 1:22 Kgs 1:32 Kgs 1:62 Kgs 1:16Jer 25:20Amos 1:8Zeph 2:4Zech 9:5Zech 9:7

Why this place is in the atlas

Ekron is a biblical place imported into Sacred Atlas from OpenBible.info with 20 Scripture references attached for review.

Claim ledger

foreignKeys[0] ancientId: a3fc47a, urlSlug: ekron, friendlyId: Ekron OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0 - High
identifications[0].coordinates latitude: 31.7775, longitude: 34.851944, precision: approximate OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0; upstream ODbL-1.0 - High
scriptureReferences Josh 13:3, Josh 15:11, Josh 15:45, Josh 15:46 King James Version 1769 - Public-Domain - High