Biblical
Geography
Made Easy
Jerusalem Map
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What do you need?
• blank 8-1/2 x 11 paper
• pencil
What do you do?
• Lay your left hand,
palm up, on the paper
• Have your index finger
separated from the other
three fingers.
• Trace your hand
• Trace your ring
• Turn the paper 180
degrees so that your
wrist is “North”
The
Temple
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SANCTUARY
• Draw a rectangle
(a) with its upper right
corner where your thumb
and index finger meet,
(b) with its lower left
corner where your index
and middle finger meet.
• Draw a TEMPLE on
its platform facing east.
• This structure was built
by Solomon, rebuilt by
Zerubbabel and remodeled
by Herod the Great.
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City of
Jesus’
Day
City of
David
Jebus
CITIES
• Trace the index finger.
This area was the Canaanite
city of Jebus.
• David captured Jebus and
made it his capital. Solomon
added the Temple. This is
OT JERUSALEM
• Draw an S-curve around
your ring and to the top
of the Temple platform.
• Trace the other fingers.
• Both walled areas are
NT JERUSALEM.
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VALLEYS
Jerusalem was shaped
by three valleys:
• the KIDRON valley.
• the
Kidron
CHEESEMAKER’S
valley.
• the valley of Hinnom, also
known as
Gehenna
Cheesemaker’s
GEHENNA.
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HILLS
Jerusalem was shaped
by four hills:
Moriah
Mishneh
Jebus
Olivet
• Mount MORIAH or the
Temple Mount.
• JEBUS or the “city of
David”.
• the western hill known as
the MISHNEH (later Zion).
• OLIVETor the Mount of
Olives, outside the city .
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Bethesda
Gihon
Siloam
Hezekiah’s
Tunnel
Enrogel
WATERWORKS
• the spring ENROGEL.
• the GIHON spring.
• the pool of SILOAM.
• the S-shaped
HEZEKIAH’S TUNNEL
connecting the Gihon and
Siloam.
• the pool of BETHESDA
serving the Temple with
water brought from south of
Bethlehem.
Palace of
Herod
Antipas
Golgotha
& the
Garden
Tomb
Praetorium
Upper
Room
High
Priest’s
Palace
Gethsemane
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PASSION PLACES
• the UPPER ROOM.
• the Garden of
GETHSEMANE.
• the HIGH PRIEST’S
PALACE.
• the PALACE of HEROD
ANTIPAS.
• Pilate’s Judgment Hall, the
PRAETORIUM.
• GOLGATHA and the
GARDEN TOMB.
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Passion Places
5
REVIEW
One
Learning
Categories
Waterworks
4
Hills
3
Valleys
2
Cities
1
Sanctuary
6
Upper Room Gethsemane
High Priest’s Palace Herod’s Palace
Praetorium Golgotha
Passion Places
5
REVIEW
Two
Learning
what’s in
the
categories
Waterworks
4
Enrogel Gihon Siloam
Hezekiah’s Tunnel Bethesda
Hills
3
Moriah Jebus
Mishneh Olivet
Valleys
2
Cities
1
Kidron
Cheesemaker’s
Gehenna
Old Testament
New Testament
Sanctuary
Temple
6
Passion Places
5
Waterworks
4
REVIEW
Three
Checking
Upper Room Gethsemane
High Priest’s Palace Herod’s Palace
Praetorium Golgotha
Enrogel Gihon Siloam
Hezekiah’s Tunnel Bethesda
Hills
3
Moriah Jebus Mishneh Olivet
Valleys
2
Cities
1
Kidron
Cheesemaker’s
Gehenna
Old Testament
New Testament
Sanctuary
Temple