Ziklag

Identified as

Tell esh Sharia

Certainty

Possible (53% of scholarship) · 7 other possible locations

Coordinates

31.391° N, 34.682° E

Ziklag

• צִקְלַג·Ziklag

Includes 1 verse that refer to Ziklag without naming it.

1. Joshua 15:31
   Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,
2. Joshua 19:5
   Ziklag, Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susah,
3. 1 Samuel 27:6
   That day Achish gave him Ziklag, and to this day it still belongs to the kings of Judah.
4. 1 Samuel 30:1
   On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.
5. 1 Samuel 30:2Referred to, not named
   They had taken captive the women and all who were there, both young and old. They had not killed anyone, but had carried them off as they went on their way.
6. 1 Samuel 30:14
   We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”
7. 1 Samuel 30:26
   When David arrived in Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, “Here is a gift for you from the plunder of the LORD’s enemies.”
8. 2 Samuel 1:1
   After the death of Saul, David returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag two days.
9. 2 Samuel 4:10
   …when someone told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was a bearer of good news, I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag. That was his reward for his news!
10. 1 Chronicles 4:30
    Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag,
11. 1 Chronicles 12:1
    Now these were the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was still banished from the presence of Saul son of Kish (they were among the mighty men who helped him in battle;
12. 1 Chronicles 12:20
    When David went to Ziklag, these men of Manasseh defected to him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, chiefs of thousands in Manasseh.
13. Nehemiah 11:28
    …in Ziklag; in Meconah and its villages;