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The maps you would find in the back of a Bible — drawn from public-domain atlases and our own drawing board only. Modern atlas art is in copyright and is never used here. Click any map for the full-resolution plate: they print beautifully for teaching.
Egypt of the patriarchs and the Exodus — the Nile, Goshen, and the Red Sea country.
Scriptures: Genesis 12–Exodus 14
Source: Wikimedia Commons — 1771 Bonne Map of the New Testament Lands, w- Holy Land and Jerusalem - Geographicus - NewTestament-bonne-1771.jpg — Public domain · via <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Rigobert_Bonn
The empires that carried Israel and Judah captive — Nineveh and Babylon.
Scriptures: 2 Kings 17; 25
Source: Wikimedia Commons — Map of eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and western Persia the period of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires (1915).jpg — Public domain · via <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Geographical_So
Persia at its height — the empire of Cyrus, Darius, and Ahasuerus, under which the Jews returned.
Scriptures: Ezra 1; Esther 1
Source: Wikimedia Commons — Ancient Persian Empire. Drawn & engraved by J. Dower. London, Published by Henry Teesdale & Co. (to accompany) A New General Atlas (IA dr ancient-persian-empire-drawn-engraved-by-j-dower-london-published-by-3326048).jpg — Public domain · via <div class="fn value">
<dl><dd>Dower, John</dd>
<dd>Teesdale
Alexander's conquests, which scattered Greek language and cities across the Bible world.
Scriptures: Daniel 8; 11
Source: Wikimedia Commons — Map of the Empire of Alexander the Great (1893).jpg — Public domain
The Roman world of the New Testament — every province Paul walked.
Scriptures: Luke 2:1; Acts
Source: Wikimedia Commons — Johnson's Roman Empire in the Time of Christ and His Apostles aslo indicating St. Paul's Journeyings. Published by A. J. (IA dr johnsons-roman-empire-in-the-time-of-christ-and-his-apostles-aslo-indicati-4574061).jpg — Public domain · via <div class="fn value">
<dl><dd>Johnson, A.J.</dd>
<dd>Guyot,
The allotments of the tribes in the land of Canaan under Joshua.
Scriptures: Joshua 13–19
Source: Wikimedia Commons — Canaan in possession of the twelve tribes of Israel (FL45582988 3925930).jpg — Public domain
From Egypt to Canaan — the traditional route of Israel's wilderness wanderings.
Scriptures: Exodus 12–Deuteronomy 34
Source: Wikimedia Commons — George F. Cram, Map of Canaan. Part of Egypt and the route of the Israelites through the wilderness B. C. 1652 - 1612 (FL37128262 3904094).jpg — Public domain · via <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:George_F._Cra
Israel under David and Solomon, from Dan to Beersheba.
Scriptures: 2 Samuel 5; 1 Kings 4
Source: Wikimedia Commons — B7 Kingdom of David and Solomon.jpg — CC0 · via Unknown author<span style="display: none;">Unknown author</s
The two kingdoms after Solomon — Israel in the north, Judah in the south.
Scriptures: 1 Kings 12
Source: Wikimedia Commons — The divided kingdom.jpg — Public domain
The city of David and of the temple — walls, temple mount, and valleys.
Scriptures: Psalm 122; Nehemiah
Source: Wikimedia Commons — Ancient Jerusalem Modern Jerusalem.jpg — Public domain · via <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Lyman_Coleman
Palestine as Jesus knew it — Galilee, Samaria, Judaea, and the Decapolis.
Scriptures: The Gospels
Source: Wikimedia Commons — Palestine under Herod's will and in the time of Christ (Smith, 1915).jpg — Public domain · via <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:George_Adam_S
The lake country — Capernaum, Bethsaida, Nazareth, and the scenes of the Galilean ministry.
Scriptures: Matthew 4–19
Source: Wikimedia Commons — Sea of Galilee, Israel (ASTER).jpg — Public domain · via NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Sci
Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea (Revelation 2–3).
Scriptures: Revelation 2–3
Source: Wikimedia Commons — Asia Minor showing positions of the Seven Churches (Smith, 1915).jpg — Public domain · via <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:George_Adam_S
The ancient Near East of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — Ur, Haran, Canaan, Egypt.
Scriptures: Genesis 11–50
Source: Wikimedia Commons — A new map shewing the travels of the Patriarchs, as also of the children of Israel, from Egypt through the wildnerness (IA dr a-new-map-shewing-the-travels-of-the-patriarchs-as-also-of-the-children-of-11181036).jpg — Public domain · via <div class="fn value">
<dl><dd>Wells, Edward, 1667-1727</dd>
All of Paul's journeys on one plate — the three missionary journeys and the voyage to Rome — from Meissas & Michelot's 1841 atlas. (Separate plates for each individual journey are still wanted; see the gaps note.)
Scriptures: Acts 13–28
Source: Wikimedia Commons — Carte des voyages de St. Paul. Par MM. Achille Meissas et Auguste Michelot.… — Public domain (1841/1868 atlas plate)
Johnson's 1868 plate of the Roman Empire in the time of Christ, with the journeyings of St. Paul indicated across it.
Scriptures: Acts
Source: Wikimedia Commons — Johnson's Roman Empire, in the Time of Christ and his Apostles also Indicat… — Public domain (1841/1868 atlas plate)
For each Gospel, our own drawn map following the book chapter by chapter: open the Gospel Journey Maps. The life of Christ in one chronological line: open the Four Gospels Harmony. And walk the ground itself in Interactive Bible Studies — A Walk with Jesus (Matthew).
Subjects for which no qualifying public-domain plate has been verified yet — listed as gaps rather than filled with protected art: The Expansion of the Early Church; Separate plates for Paul's individual journeys (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and the voyage to Rome) — one combined 1841 plate is sourced above; The Expansion of the Early Church.