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--color-end: var(--bgcolor-content-end);" ><div class="content"> <div class="label gradient-to-tr" style="--color-start: #96445a; --color-end: #6f637e;">Theme</div> <h1><span itemprop="name headline" property="og:title">Places in Israel</span></h1><h2><em>Article Index</em></h2> <div class="sponsor-sidebar"><div class="desktop-show" align="center"><div class="adManager-placeholder"></div></div></div> <h2>Israel</h2> <a href="what-does-Israel-mean.html">What does <em>Israel</em> mean in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Holy-Land.html">Why is Israel called the Holy Land?</a><br><br> <a href="land-of-Canaan.html">What is the significance of the land of Canaan in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Valley-of-Siddim.html">What is the Valley of Siddim in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Judea-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Judea in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Galilee-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Galilee in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Ai-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Ai in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Gibeon-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Gibeon in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Anathoth-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Anathoth in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Jezreel.html">What is the meaning of Jezreel?</a><br><br> <a href="Beer-Lahai-Roi.html">What is the biblical significance of Beer Lahai Roi?</a><br><br> <a href="Jericho-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Jericho in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="land-of-Gilead.html">What is the significance of the land of Gilead in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Gibeah-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Gibeah in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Lo-Debar-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Lo Debar in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="history-of-Masada.html">What is the history of Masada?</a><br><br> <a href="mount-Gerizim.html">What is the significance of Mount Gerizim in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Topheth-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Topheth in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Negev-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of the Negev in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Zaphon-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Zaphon in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Ziklag-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Ziklag in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Perea-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Perea in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Decapolis-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Decapolis in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Dothan-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Dothan in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Samaria-in-the-Bible.html">What is the importance of Samaria in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Joppa-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Joppa in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Gilgal-in-the-Bible.html">What is the importance of Gilgal in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Shechem-in-the-Bible.html">What is the importance of Shechem in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Hebron-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Hebron in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Tekoa-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Tekoa in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Megiddo-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Megiddo in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="En-Gedi.html">What is the significance of En Gedi in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Bethlehem-in-the-Bible.html">What is the importance of Bethlehem in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Bethsaida-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Bethsaida in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Beersheba-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Beersheba in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Nain-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Nain in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Ramah-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Ramah in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Caesarea-Philippi.html">What is the significance of Caesarea Philippi in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Caesarea-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Caesarea in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Chorazin-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Chorazin in the Bible?</a><br><br> <h2>Jerusalem</h2> <a href="Zion.html">What is Zion? What is the biblical meaning of Zion?</a><br><br> <a href="city-of-Jerusalem.html">What is the significance of the city of Jerusalem?</a><br><br> <a href="Jerusalem-destroyed.html">How many times has Jerusalem been destroyed?</a><br><br> <a href="pray-peace-Jerusalem.html">Why should we pray for the peace of Jerusalem?</a><br><br> <a href="Jerusalem-capital-Israel.html">Should Jerusalem be the capital of modern-day Israel?</a><br><br> <a href="gates-of-Jerusalem.html">What was/is the importance of the gates of Jerusalem?</a><br><br> <a href="walls-of-Jerusalem.html">What is the significance of the walls of Jerusalem?</a><br><br> <a href="Kidron-Valley.html">What is the Kidron Valley in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Pool-of-Siloam.html">What happened at the Pool of Siloam?</a><br><br> <a href="Mount-of-Olives.html">What happened on the Mount of Olives?</a><br><br> <a href="garden-of-Gethsemane.html">What happened in the Garden of Gethsemane?</a><br><br> <a href="Via-Dolorosa.html">What is the Via Dolorosa?</a><br><br> <a href="Golgotha-Calvary.html">Where/what is Golgotha/Calvary?</a><br><br> <a href="place-of-the-skull.html">Why does <em>Golgotha</em> mean “place of the skull” (Matthew 27:33)?</a><br><br> <a href="Akeldama-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Akeldama in the Bible?</a><br><br> <h2>The Tabernacle and the Temple</h2> <a href="mount-Moriah.html">What is the significance of Mount Moriah in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="temple-mount.html">What is the meaning and significance of the Temple Mount?</a><br><br> <a href="Solomon-first-temple.html">What was Solomon’s temple, the first temple? How many temples were there?</a><br><br> <a href="Herod-third-temple.html">What was Herod’s temple / the third temple?</a><br><br> <a href="Holy-of-Holies.html">What was the Holy of Holies?</a><br><br> <a href="Most-Holy-Place.html">What were the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place in the temple / tabernacle?</a><br><br> <a href="Solomon-Porch.html">What was Solomon’s Porch?</a><br><br> <a href="Wailing-Wall.html">What is the Wailing Wall / Western Wall?</a><br><br> <a href="Dome-of-the-Rock.html">What is the Dome of the Rock?</a><br><br> <a href="tabernacle-of-Moses.html">What was the tabernacle of Moses?</a><br><br> <a href="tent-of-meeting.html">What was the tent of meeting?</a><br><br> <a href="Court-of-the-Gentiles.html">What was the Court of the Gentiles in the Jewish temple?</a><br><br> <hr><br> <center><strong class="return"> Return to:<br><br> <a class="button-link box-shadow" href="content_places.html">Content Directory — Places in the Bible</a><br><br> <a class="button-link box-shadow" href="content_places_outside-Israel.html">Places Outside Israel</a><br><br> <a class="button-link box-shadow" href="content_places_other.html">Other Places in the Bible</a><br><br> </strong> </center> <hr><br> <center><strong class="return"> Return to:<br><br> <a class="button-link box-shadow" href="content.html">Content Index</a></strong></center> </div> </section> <section class="homepage-sponsor desktop-hide"> <div class="desktop-hide" align="center"><div class="adManager-placeholder-mobile"></div></div> </section> <section class="subscribe gradient-to-br" style="--color-start: #153c59; --color-end: #1b537c"> <div class="grid"> <div class="gradient-to-br box-shadow" style="--color-start: #2c6482; --color-end: #64547b"> <h5>Subscribe to the</h5> <h3>Question of the Week</h3> <p>Get our Question of the Week delivered right to your inbox!</p> <iframe src="scommon/qotw.htm" title="question of the week" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="100%"></iframe> </div></div> </section> </main> <footer-element></footer-element> <center> <div itemprop="dateModified" content="2025-02-18">This page last updated: February 18, 2025</div></center> <script src="scripts-2025.js"></script> <div style="display: none;" itemprop="publisher" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Organization"><meta itemprop="name" content="GotQuestions.org"><div itemprop="logo" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject"> <img src="https://www.gotquestions.org/img/GQlogo.png"><meta itemprop="url" content="https://www.gotquestions.org/img/GQlogo.png"><meta itemprop="width" content="400"><meta itemprop="height" content="79"> </div></div> </body> </html>