Places in the Bible · Region

Shephelah

Shephelah is a region mentioned in 19 verses. Its most likely location is Shephelah.

panorama of hills in the Shephelah
panorama of hills in the Shephelah · Photo: Davidbena (CC-BY-SA-4.0), via Wikimedia Commons

Where is Shephelah?

Approx. 31.6917, 34.8750 · OpenStreetMap · Google Maps

Possible modern locations

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Verses that mention Shephelah

  • Deuteronomy 1:7

    Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.

  • Joshua 9:1

    And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;

  • Joshua 10:40

    So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded.

  • Joshua 11:2

    And to the kings that were on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,

  • Joshua 11:16

    So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;

  • Joshua 12:8

    In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:

  • Joshua 15:33

    And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,

  • Judges 1:9

    And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley.

  • 1 Kings 10:27

    And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.

  • 1 Chronicles 27:28

    And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the low plains was Baal–hanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash:

All 19 references