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Places of the Bible

Sheba

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Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Sheba, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.

  • Job's Trial · 1649 BC · 1 verse
  • Reign of Solomon · 1014 BC · 4 verses
  • Prophecies of Isaiah · 758 BC · 1 verse
  • Prophecies of Jeremiah · 627 BC · 1 verse
  • Prophecies of Ezekiel · 592 BC · 3 verses

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Heb. id. A kingdom in Arabia Felix. Sheba, in fact, was Saba in Southern Arabia, the Sabaeans of classical geography, who carried on the trade in spices with the other peoples of the ancient world. They were Semites, speaking one of the two main dialects of Himyaritic or South Arabic. Sheba had become a monarchy before the days of Solomon. Its queen brought him gold, spices, and precious stones (1 Kings 10:1-13). She is called by our Lord the “queen of the south” (Matt. 12:42).

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 17 verses

Joshua
19:2
1 Kings
10:1, 10:4, 10:10, 10:13
2 Chronicles
9:1, 9:3, 9:9, 9:12
Job
6:19
Psalms
72:10, 72:15
Isaiah
60:6
Jeremiah
6:20
Ezekiel
27:22, 27:23, 38:13

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.