BIBLE ATLAS. Tim Dowley. Contents. CATHOLIC BOOK PUBLISHING CORP. New Jersey. Four Great Empires 18. Introduction 2

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1 BIBL TLS Tim owley Contents Introduction 2 Israel Today 3 Lands of the Bible 4 braham s Journeys 6 The xodus 8 Israel in Canaan 10 ividing the Land 11 The Kingdom of Saul 12 The United Kingdom 13 Solomon s United Kingdom 14 The ivided Kingdom 15 lijah and lisha 16 Jeroboam II and Uzziah 17 Four Great mpires 18 The Holy Land under the accabees 20 The Holy Land Relief 21 The Roman mpire 22 The Holy Land at the Time of Christ 24 Jesus in Galilee 25 Jerusalem at the Time of Christ 26 The Spread of Christianity before Paul 27 Paul s issionary Journeys 28 xtent of the Church in Index of Place ames 32 CTHOLIC BOOK PUBLISHIG CORP. ew Jersey

2 The xodus G R T S Rameses On (Heliopolis) Reed Sea Shihor Lake Pithom GOSH Succoth Bitter Lake igdol tham Way to the land of the Philistines o f W i l d e r n e s s S h u r Way to Shur of Brook g y p oph (emphis) G Y P T? Wilderness of Paran ile R S iracles of the manna and quails Wilderness of Sin? ophkah Paran iracle of water from the rock. Rephidim Battle with the malekites. W i l d e r n e s s o f S i n Traditional route of the xodus Track km Jebel ûsa (ount Sinai) oses receives the Ten Commandments miles 8

3 Heshbon t Gaza Beersheba Route through dom and oab (umbers 33) Kadesh-barnea Wilderness of Zin The egeb Tamar ount ebo Salt Sea King's Highway Punon Zered O O ibon Gad B Iye barim The Route of the Spies G Brook R malekites Canaanites Tyre Shechem? Valley of shcol Hebron of gypt T S T H G B C Byblos Hazor Sea of Chinnereth morites Jebusites Jebus (Jerusalem) Hittites rad Canaanites Salt Sea m o r i t e s O B Lebo- Hamath amascus Kadesh-barnea O Hazeroth Timna Jotbathah bronah zion-geber I Route avoiding dom and oab (umbers 21) braham s descendants, the Israelites, remained in gypt for some 400 years, becoming enslaved by the gyptians. Finally, after a series of terrible plagues, oses led them out of gypt, across the Red Sea, and into the desert. We cannot be sure which direction they took the map shows the traditional route. (They would not have taken the direct, coastal route, since it was guarded.) t ount Sinai, oses received the Ten Commandments. Later, spies were sent to reconnoiter the Promised Land of Canaan. fter 40 years in the wilderness, and after oses had died, the Israelites crossed the River from oab into the Promised Land. xodus, umbers a i Bare wilderness near ount Sinai. I 9

4 The Holy Land at the Time of Christ S Caesarea Ptolemais Geba Tyre Sepphoris PHOICI GLIL Tiberias ount Tabor Scythopolis (Beth-shan) S OF GLIL ITUR Hippos Gadara CPOLIS Pella ount Hermon Caesarea Philippi Lake Huleh Gamala GULITIS ion Raphana BT amascus TRCHOITIS Kanatha URITIS S Y R I Joppa Jamnia zotus I T R R Sebaste (Samaria) SRI Sychar (Shechem) ntipatris lexandrium PR Phaselis rchelais JU Livias Jerusalem Cyprus Gerasa (Jerash) Philadelphia (Rabbath mmon) sbus (Heshbon) scalon Gaza arisa IU Hyrcania Herodium Hebron asada S achaerus BTS Capital Boundary of Herod the Great s kingdom Land given to Philip Herod ntipas rchelaus Province of Syria Town of the ecapolis Fortress of Herod the Great ain route km miles The Roman general Pompey took Jerusalem in 63 B.C., beginning almost 700 years of Roman rule. Herod the Great ruled the Holy Land, under the Roman tutelage. On his death in 4 B.C., his kingdom was divided up among three of his sons. 24 Herod ntipas ruled Galilee and Perea; Philip ruled Ituraea and Trachonitis; and rchelaus ruled Judea, Samaria, and Idumea. In.. 6, rchelaus was replaced by a Roman procurator; at the time of Jesus death, the procurator was Pontius Pilate ( ). The ecapolis was a league of self-governing Greek cities, formed after Pompey s campaign (65-62 B.C.). It gave protection to its Gentile citizens, who were mainly Greekspeaking Roman soldiers, against militant Jews and rabian tribes.

5 Jesus in Galilee uch of Jesus ministry was spent teaching and healing around Lake Galilee, and Jesus earliest postles were local fishermen (ark 1:14-20). He often taught in a boat while the crowds listened from the shore. The lake was large and subject to sudden squalls as winds swept across the valley: hence the unexpected storm at sea (ark 4:35-41). The Sea of Galilee is sometimes also known as Tiberias and Gennesaret. number of thriving, populous towns surrounded the lake. Jesus made His headquarters the fishing town of Capernaum, which was also a frontier post on the Roman road from gypt to amascus. 25