History Globe
Tour · c. 1150 BC
Ehud and Jephthah
City of Palms Judg 3:12–14
Eglon king of Moab, with Ammon and Amalek, smites Israel and takes the city of palm trees; Israel serves him eighteen years.
Open on the map →Gilgal Judg 3:15–25
Ehud the left-handed brings Israel's present, turns back from the quarries by Gilgal with a secret errand for the king, and thrusts his dagger into Eglon's belly.
Open on the map →Seirah Judg 3:26–30 · ≈ 17 km in a straight line
He escapes to Seirah, blows a trumpet in mount Ephraim, and Israel takes the fords of the Jordan toward Moab; the land has rest eighty years.
Open on the map →Tob Judg 11:1–3 · ≈ 105 km in a straight line
Jephthah the Gileadite, driven out by his brothers, flees to the land of Tob, where vain men gather to him.
Open on the map →Mizpah Judg 11:4–11 · ≈ 66 km in a straight line
When Ammon makes war, the elders of Gilead fetch him; the people make him head and captain, and he utters all his words before the Lord in Mizpeh.
Open on the map →Aroer Judg 11:29–33 · ≈ 19 km in a straight line
He vows that whatever comes out of his doors to meet him shall be the Lord's, and smites Ammon from Aroer to Minnith, twenty cities.
Open on the map →Mizpah Judg 11:34–40 · ≈ 19 km in a straight line
At Mizpeh his only daughter comes out to meet him with timbrels and dances: "Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low."
Open on the map →Jordan Judg 12:1–6 · ≈ 45 km in a straight line
At the passages of Jordan the men of Gilead know the men of Ephraim by one word: "Say now Shibboleth."
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