Sacred Atlas

Where Is It Today?

Where Is Philistia Today?

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

Modern locationmodern identification under review
ConfidenceHigh
Scripture refs22

High confidence

Modern identification

Tel Ashkelon - modern identification under review

Coordinates31.6639, 34.5458
Kindregion
Claims3
Sources2

Scripture anchors

Ex 15:14Judg 10:61 Sam 31:92 Sam 8:121 Chr 10:91 Chr 18:112 Chr 26:6Ps 60:8Ps 83:7Ps 87:4Ps 108:9Isa 9:12Isa 11:14Isa 14:29Isa 14:31Jer 47:5Ezek 16:57Ezek 25:15Joel 3:4Amos 6:2Obad 1:19Zech 9:6

Why this place is in the atlas

Philistia is a biblical place imported into Sacred Atlas from OpenBible.info with 22 Scripture references attached for review.

Claim ledger

foreignKeys[0] ancientId: ac71e65, urlSlug: philistia, friendlyId: Philistia OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0 - High
identifications[0].coordinates latitude: 31.663889, longitude: 34.545833, precision: region OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0; upstream ODbL-1.0 - High
scriptureReferences Ex 15:14, Judg 10:6, 1 Sam 31:9, 2 Sam 8:12 King James Version 1769 - Public-Domain - High