Atlas Biblica

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    Horesh

    חֹ֫רֶשׁ

    Horesh, a wilderness area in Judah where David hid from Saul.

    Where the story of Horesh happensWhere the gazetteer locates Horesh, framed to them: Horesh. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Horesh
    Where the gazetteer locates Horesh
    verses
    4
    first named
    1 Samuel 23:15
    last named
    1 Samuel 23:19
    feature
    natural area
    coordinates
    31.45°N · 35.13°E
    natural area31.45°N · 35.13°E

    Khirbet Khureise (OpenBible)

    The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.

    Description

    Horesh in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Horesh was a wilderness area in Judah where David sought refuge from King Saul (1Sa.23.15-19). While David was in the wilderness of Ziph, he learned that Saul was pursuing him. Jonathan, Saul's son and David's friend, visited David at Horesh and encouraged him, affirming that David would become the next king of Israel. The Ziphites later informed Saul of David's location, but David escaped before Saul could capture him. The exact location of Horesh is not specified, but it was likely in the vicinity of Ziph, southeast of Hebron.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    Site of

    Stands in the same events as

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    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 4, across 1 book.

    1. 1 Samuel4 verses

      23:1523:1623:1823:19

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via David’s stayingDavidAnointed king of Israel, ancestor of Jesus Christvia David’s stayingStayingStaying is a concept gathering 59 labelled instances in the text.via David’s stayingZiphA town in Judah where David hid from Saul

    Where they appear

    What happened here

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

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