This document provides information about important biblical places and references in 3 sections. It lists biblical places, their other names and meanings, and the key biblical events associated with each place. Some of the places mentioned include Joppa, Caesarea, Nazareth, Megiddo, Sepphoris, Masada, Hazor, Bethesda, the Sea of Galilee, and Jerusalem sites like the Temple Mount, Western Wall, and Gethsemane. The document uses biblical references to describe significant events that took place at each location.

1. Bible Places and References
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2. Name Other Meaning Event Reference
Name Other Meaning Event Reference Names
Names
Joppa Yafo Beauty and The call of Jonah Jonah 1:1-3 Cardio
Jaffa loveliness
Japho Jaffe
Western Wailing Ha-Kotel Psalm
Wall Wall Ha- 122:6-9
Ma'arav
Southern Luke
Peter’s vision on the Acts 10:8-16 Temple 2:21-35
housetop
Temple Luke
Peter raising Tabatha Acts 9:36-41 Mount 2:41-49
(Dorcas) from the dead
Dome Of Believed to be where Genesis
The Rock Abraham nearly 22:1-13
sacrificed his son Isaac at
a place called Mount
Moriah
Caesarea Kaiseriyeh Peter first took the Acts 10:1-7 Moslems believe that it is
message of the Gospel the place from which the
to Gentiles at Caesarea prophet
Philip the evangelist Acts 21:8-9 Muhammad went into
lived in Caesarea heaven
Paul sailed from Acts 9:30 It is there that another
Caesarea to his native Temple is going to be
Tarsus built
It was at Caesarea that Acts 12:19- It is in that Temple that Matthew
Herod Agrippa I was 23 the conquering "beast", as 24:15
struck down by God described in
for his idolatrous blas- Revelation 13, is going to
phemy sit, where he has no right
Megiddo Armaged- Rendez- It is a place where a Revelation to be
don vous, or great end-time gather- 16:16 Golgotha Where Jesus was John
place of ing of armies is prophe- crucified 19:16-30
troops. sied to occur Empty Where Jesus rose John
Sepphois Garden from the dead 20:1-18
Nazareth The "home town" of Luke 4:16 - Tomb
Jesus Christ 21
The angel Gabriel Luke 1:26-
appeared to Mary to 33
announce the coming
birth of Christ

3. Name Other Meaning Event Reference
Names Name Other Meaning Event Reference
Names
Masada Caper- Tel Hum The calling of Simon Matthew
naum (Peter) and 4:12-17
Dead Sea Genesis Andrew
14:3
Deut. 3:17
Herod’s Matthew It is the central point of Luke 1:13
Palace 2:1-5; 7, the ministry of Jesus
8:12-13, 16 Christ
Spring of 1 Samuel The healing of Peter's Matthew
David 29:1-3 mother-in-law 8:14-15
The healing of the Matthew 8:5
centurion's servant -7
The healing of a Matthew
paralyzed man 9:2,7
The casting out of Mark 1:23-
demons 27
The miraculous feeding Mark 8:6-9
of the 4,000
Jesus taught at the Mark 1:21
Synagogue
Caesarea Banyas The transfiguration of Matthew
Philippi Paneas Jesus Christ 16:13-17
Banias
Spring

4. Name Other Meaning Event Reference Name Other Meaning Event Reference
Names Names
Geth- Oil Where Jesus prayed Matthew
Hazor En- Joshua took Hazor Joshua semane press in the garden, was 26:26-56
closed, in battle 11:10 betrayed and
or arrested
fortified St. Lion’s Acts 7:54-
Bethesda Bethsaida House of Jesus Christ healed John 5:2-18 Stephen’s Gate 60
Beth-zatha mercy a man on the Sabbath Gate
Bethesda Bethsaida House Jesus healed a man John 5:2-18
Jesus healed a blind Mark 8:22- Beth- of on the Sabbath
man here 26 zatha mercy
Sea of The Sea of Pilate’s Matthew
Galilee Kinnereth Judgment 27:2, 11-31
The Sea of Hall
Chinnereth Via Jesus’ path to Calvary Luke
The Sea of Dolorosa 23:26-32
Tiberias.
Mt. Zion 1 Kings 8:1
The Lake
of
Genne- House of John
sareth Caiaphas 18:12-27
From the Sea of Matthew Upper Where Jesus met Mark
Galilee came at least 4:12-21 Room with his Disciples after 14:12-15
four of the twelve His resurrection
apostles – Peter, An- Bethlehem Where the birth of Luke 2:1-
drew, James, and John Jesus Christ took place 11
Jesus stilled the Matthew The events of the The Book
raging storm on the 14:23-33 Book of Ruth take of Ruth
Sea of Galilee place in the region of
Jesus and Peter walked Bethlehem
on the water Shepherd’s Where the angels Luke 2:8-
Jesus fed the over five Matthew Fields appeared to the 10
thousand men, women 14:14-21 shepherds announcing
and children Christ’s birth
Fields of Where Ruth gleaned Ruth 2:8-13
Boaz and
Ruth

5. Name Other Meaning Event Reference Name Other Meaning Event Reference
Names Names
Mount of King David fled over 2 Samuel
Olives the Mount of Olives to 15:30 The Descender The first mention of the Genesis
escape from Absalom's
Jordon Jordan is when Abra- 13:10-11
rebellion
River ham and Lot parted
After King Solomon 1 Kings 11:7 Jacob was renamed Genesis
became corrupt, he
Israel at the ford of the 32:22-28
built pagan "high places"
Jabbok River, a tributary
there
of the Jordan:
King Josiah destroyed 2 Kings The Israelites entered Joshua
Solomon's idolatrous 23:13-14 the Promised Land by 3:15-17
altars, by which time it
crossing the
had become known as
Jordan River
the Hill of Corruption
Jesus Christ was bap- Matthew
Ezekiel had his vision Ezekiel
tized by John in the Jor- 3:13-17
of The Lord and the 11:22-23 dan River Judges
flying cherubim above it
Jesus taught his Disci- Matthew 7:22-23
ples 24:3 Gideon’s
Jesus regularly went up Luke 22:39 Spring
onto the Mount of
Olives Jerusalem Salem Peace Psalm of David Psalm
The Triumphal Entry Luke Jebus 122
of Jesus 19:28-44 Where Jesus ascended Acts 1:8-
Jesus prayed with His Luke into the heavens after 11
disciples there just 22:39-46 His resurrection
before His arrest Where the Return of Matthew
Jesus was arrested there
Luke 22:49- Jesus Christ will occur 24:30-31
51 Zechariah
Jesus appeared to the Acts 1:1-12 14:3-5
disciples on the Mount Where the first Temple 1 Kings 5-
of Olives after His was constructed 9
Resurrection, and He (took 7 years) 2 Chroni-
ascended into heaven cles 2
from there