World English Bible · with a gazetteer of place names
The Book of Judges is among the most geographically restless of the Hebrew Bible’s narrative books. Its twenty-one chapters traverse the whole settled land — from the Jezreel valley to the Negev, from the trans-Jordan plateau to the Philistine plain — and most of its named places are villages, hill-country towns, and threshing-floors rather than capitals. The cycle of judges plays out among the tribal allotments fixed in the previous book; each deliverer arises in a particular district, marches by a particular route, and is buried at a particular tomb.
This edition pairs the text of the World English Bible (public domain) with a map of the places named in each chapter. Identifications follow the Anchor Bible Dictionary.
Solid pins denote identified sites; lighter pins denote probable identifications; outlined pins denote conjectural ones.