Call to flee from Nebuchadnezzar 31. Not seen are Egypt, which is to the SW, Kedar, Elam and Babylon. Some of the places listed above are shown on the maps below: one in portrait mode and the other in landscape (last updated in April 2020).  Click on each picture to see the map at a higher resolution. This map includes ancient Bible Cities such as Jerusalem, Petra, Damascus, Kadesh, Megiddo, Tyre, Ashdod, Beersheba, Ziklag, and Sidon. Yahweh will bring disaster 33. This article is a list of places of interest in the story of the life of Jeremiah, and they are grouped in categories from the smallest area (Jerusalem) to the largest area (the Middle East). The contours were using NASA data through Maperative. [14], The first settlement excavated in Tel Hazor is dated to the Early Bronze Age II and III periods, existing at around the 28th and 24th centuries BCE. Note that these maps are also available in SVG and in a variety of higher resolutions in PNG format. A Message About Kedar and Hazor August 26, 2017 Posted by flashbuzzer in Books, Christianity. Destroy the people of the east! It maintained commercial ties with Babylon and Syria, and imported large quantities of tin for the bronze industry. 171 references (88 times to the “king of Babylon”) Called Sheshak in some translations of Jeremiah 51:41, and probably synonymous with the land of Merathaim (or “double rebellion”) in Jeremiah 50:21) – city/region: Pekod (Jeremiah 50:21) – region south of Babylon? The series Terror on Every Side! This is the principle of prejudice, hate and war. Also, a large amount of Copper ingots were collected. There’s a Hazor in Israel but this is apparently a different group. In these documents, Hazor is described as an important city in Canaan. Tags: God, hazor, jeremiah, judgment, kedar trackback. King’s palace(s) (Jeremiah 6:5; 9:21; 17:27; 30:18; 32:2): Court of the guard (located in the palace, Jeremiah 32:2) (Jeremiah 32:8, 12; 33:1; 37:21; 38:13, 28; 39:14-15), Cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son (Jeremiah 38:6-13) (located in the court of the guard, Jeremiah 38:6), Scribe’s (the secretary’s) chamber in palace (Jeremiah 36:12), Winter house in court of the king in the palace (Jeremiah 36:20-22), Chamber of Elishama the scribe (Jeremiah 36:20-21 – located in the palace (Jeremiah 36:12)). Middle Gate or middle of the gate (Jeremiah 39:3), 2nd Quarter (home of Huldah) (2 Kings 22:14; 2 Chronicles 34:22; Zephaniah 1:10), House of Jonathan the secretary/scribe (prison/dungeon) (Jeremiah 37:15-16, 20; 38:26), Valley of Ben Hinnom (Slaughter) / Topheth (Jeremiah 7:31-32; 19:2, 6; 32:35), Valley of the dead bodies (cemetery) (Jeremiah 31:40; 26:23? 26 Therefore her yong men shal fall in her streets, and all the men of warre shall bee cut off in that day, saith the Lord of hosts. 169-174, (Summer, 1983). Hazor near Lake Merom. During the Middle Bronze IIA (MBIIA; 1820-1550), Hazor was a vassal of Ishi-Addu of Qatna. Initial soundings were carried out by John Garstang in 1926.[4]. Thus the establishment of a possible palace in Hazor, as well as in Dan, attest to this phenomenon. De Rothschild Expedition at Hazor], Oxford University Press, 1961. During the Egyptian Second Intermediate Period and early New Kingdoms (together running between 18th century BC and 13th century BC), Canaan was an Egyptian vassal state; thus 14th century documents, from the El Amarna archive in Egypt, describe the king of Hazor (in Amarna letters called Hasura), Abdi-Tirshi, as swearing loyalty to the Egyptian pharaoh. What Did the Biblical Writers Know, and when Did They Know It? Ugarit-Forschungen 43: 537-567, Yadin Yigael and Et Al. During the time of Joshua, it was a Canaanite stronghold in northern Palestine. However, EA 148 specifically reports that Hasura's king had gone over to the Habiru, who were attacking sites in Canaan. At some time, I may make the SVG file available on the website, but it is large and needs tidying up first! Throughout the country, most cities were abandoned and archaeologists found mainly small agricultural villages and tombs. Later, they rebelled against Babylon and hosted Ishmael, the one who murdered Gedaliah (Jeremiah 41). | It is near Lake Merom, where it was strategically located on ancient trade routes from the north, east and west.It was controlled by both the Canaanites and Israelites, and was a major military objective of various ancient kings from as far away as Egypt.It is now … Judgment on Kedar and Hazor. [9] The excavations were supported by James A. de Rothschild, and were published in a dedicated five volume set of books by the Israel Exploration Society. [16] Hazor is part of a trade route Hazor-Qatna-Mari. 3, pp. Twelve times to be exact. Jeremiah 50:5, 28; 51:10, 24,35). This “derivative work” is released under the same licence.  Click on each picture to see the map at a higher resolution. This oracle is quite brief. In the Book of Joshua, Hazor is described as “the head of all those kingdoms” (Josh. This is the most well-known city of Hazor. Kedar. Tel Hazor Excavation Project (Official site for Hazor excavations) Contains information for those interested in joining the dig. Several of Jerusalem’s gates are mentioned in Jeremiah – see article “The city gates of Jerusalem”. Note that this map is also available in SVG and in a variety of higher resolutions in PNG format.  If you would like to have any of these, please let me know by emailing me.  Other colour options that include altitude information are also available.  This map in all its forms is released into the public domain. Yadin, Hazor I : An Account of the First Season of Excavations, 1955, Magnes Press, 1958. Thus says the Lord: “Arise, go up to Kedar, And devastate the men of the East!” a. "The Mysterious Statue at Hazor: The “Allah” of the Muslims? Findings from the dig are housed in a museum at Kibbutz Ayelet HaShahar. [1][22] The city also show signs of having been a magnificent Canaanite city prior to its destruction, with great temples and opulent palaces, split into an upper acropolis, and lower city; the town evidently had been a major Canaanite city. I like Bibles with maps; I like text books with maps; I like novels with maps. It is the name for the nomadic tribes of Arabs, the Bedouins generally ( Isaiah 21:16; 42:11; 60:7; Jeremiah 2:10; Ezekiel 27:21), who dwelt in the north-west of Arabia.They lived in black hair-tents (Cant 1:5).To "dwell in the tents of Kedar" was to be cut off from … When you have eliminated the JavaScript , whatever remains must be an empty page. [5743] family group of Kedar and the rulers of Hazor Kedar was the name of an Arab family group that lived in the desert southeast of the land of Judah. 46, no. : You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. It is amazing to me just how many places are referred to in the book of Jeremiah, so much so that I have limited this list almost exclusively to places found in the book of Jeremiah, mostly ignoring books like 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, Ezekiel, Daniel, Habakkuk and Zephaniah. until now because it was too hard to include all the places of interest when some are only a hundred metres apart while others are scattered over thousands of kilometres.  Now, finally, here are some Jeremiah maps. Kedar was Abraham’s grandson, and the second son of Ishmael (Genesis 25:13). Tel Hazor (Hebrew: תל חצור‎), also Chatsôr (Hebrew: חָצוֹר‎), translated in LXX as Hasōr (Ancient Greek: Άσώρ)[1][2] and Tell el-Qedah (Arabic: تل القدح‎), is an archaeological tell at the site of ancient Hazor, located in Israel, Upper Galilee, north of the Sea of Galilee, in the northern Korazim Plateau. The Lord says: "Go and attack the family group of Kedar… One theory suggests that the manufacturers of the Khirbet Kerak tools, which were introduced to the settlement, chose or were forced to use a different source of clay, not controlled by the other workshops. Kedar and Hazor (49:28-33) Nebuchadnezzar did invade this territory in his conquests. This Hazor was likely similar to the people of Kedar who lived in tents out in the Arabian desert east of Ammon and Moab and Edom. Seir Bozrah Dumah Tema Dedan Kedar Hazor 88. Tel Hazor is the largest archaeological site in northern Israel, featuring an upper tell of 30 acres and a lower city of more than 175 acres.[3]. He also founded a city that is mentioned quite a few times in scripture. 25–47, Nov 2007. The biblical record declares … "The Alleged 'Anchor Point' of 732 BC for the Destruction of Hazor V", "Yadin photographs & footage of the excavations", Baháʼi Holy Places in Haifa and Western Galilee, Incense Route – Desert Cities in the Negev, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tel_Hazor&oldid=1014671696, Former populated places in Southwest Asia, Buildings and structures in Northern District (Israel), Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Houses and a monumental structure (possibly a palace or other central building), Middle Bronze Age I/Intermediate Bronze Age, Erection of the earthen rampart of the Lower City, six-chambered gate, casemate wall, domestic structures, casemate wall still used, administrative structures and domestic units, post–Assyrian destruction; settlement (possibly, governmental structures on and around the tell, Ruhama Bonfil and Anabel Zarzecki-Peleg, The Palace in the Upper City of Hazor as an Expression of a Syrian Architectural Paradigm, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, no. Jeremiah 49 Commentary Kedar | 28-29. The document includes laws pertaining to body parts and damages, similar to laws such as "an eye for an eye" that appear in the Book of Exodus. Enable JavaScript to see Google Maps. All of the places listed above (except for Sodom and Gomorrah) and many of the towns in surrounding countries are shown on the map below. Jeremiah 42:14-19: total 62 references) – country: Tahpanhes (Jeremiah 2:16; 43:7-9; 44:1; 46:14) – city, Pharaoh’s palace in Tahpanhes (Jeremiah 43:9), Memphis (Noph) (Jeremiah 2:16; 44:1; 46:14, 19) – city, Land of Pathros (Jeremiah 44:1, 15) – region, Heliopolis (On) (obelisks, Jeremiah 43:13) – city, Elam (Jeremiah 25:25; 49:34-39) – country, Ethiopia / Cush (Jeremiah 13:23; 38:7, 10, 12; 39:16; 46:9) – country, Euphrates River: hiding loincloth (Jeremiah 13:4-7); near Carchemish (Jeremiah 46:2, 6, 10); Assyria (Jeremiah 2:18); in Babylon (Jeremiah 51:61-63), Kingdoms of Hazor – may mean kingdoms of unwalled villages and mean tribes of desert dwellers living in the area near Kedar (Jeremiah 49:28, 30, 33) – region/nations, Kedar (Jeremiah 2:10; 49:28) – country/region, Lebanon (Jeremiah 18:14; 22:6, 20, 23) – country and region, Mount Sirion (Jeremiah 18:14) (also known as Mount Hermon or Mount Senir – Deuteronomy 3:9; 4:48) – mountain/region, Media (Medes) (Jeremiah 25:25; 51:11, 28) – country, Kingdom of Minni (Jeremiah 51:27) (also known as Mannai), Horonaim (Jeremiah 48:3, 34; descent of – Jeremiah 48:5), Beth-diblathaim (Jeremiah 48:22) – town, Kerioth (Jeremiah 48:24; also 48:41 in NASB (“cities” in RSV/ESV)), Bozrah in Moab (Jeremiah 48:24) – town (not to be confused with Bozrah in Edom), Kir-hareseth/Kir-heres (Jeremiah 48:31, 36) – town.