Modern locations of places in the Bible:
Khirbet el Medeineh
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| Also Called | Medeineh on the Wadi el Lejjun |
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| Latitude, Longitude | 31.281151, 35.871731 |
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| Palestine 1928 Grid Coordinates (?) | 232992/076796 |
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| Type | settlement |
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| Point Precision | 100 m |
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| Coordinates Sources | - Aharoni, Land of the Bible (1979): page 433
- HarperCollins Concise Atlas of the Bible (1991): City of Moab
- MEGAJordan
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| General Location Notes | - Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (1992) (Ar (place)): 233/077 (reported as 330/768)
- a different Medeineh at 31.420691,35.950111 (MEGAJordan 12771) is also possible but doesn’t match the coordinates in Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (1992) (Ar (place))
- Miller, Israelite Journey through (around) Moab (1989) (page 27): “Musil and Abel refer specifically to the Medeineh at the juncture of the Wadi Saliyeh and Wadi Sa‘ideh on the pages cited by Van Zyl. Moreover, while Musil proposed this Medeineh as a possible candidate for Ar... [he] clearly distinguished this ’Ar’ from the Ar of Deut 2:16, 29, and Isa 15:1 which he equated with Areopolis/er-Rabbah”
- given the coordinate problems throughout Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (1992) (Ar (place)), I’m not completely sure this is the correct Medeineh
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Biblical places associated with Khirbet el Medeineh
10-meter-per-pixel satellite Image
Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2019 (modified)