Places of the Bible

Syria

Country · region

What happened here

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.

Second Missionary Journey begins · 47 AD
Return from Second Missionary Journey · 50 AD
Voyage from Miletus to Jerusalem · 54 AD

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Syria, 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. The numbers are the lines below.

1 Oppression by Ammon and Philistia · 1169 BC · 1 verse
2 Reign of Solomon · 1014 BC · 2 verses
3 Reign of Asa · 954 BC · 1 verse
4 Prophecies of Elijah · 909 BC · 3 verses
5 Prophecies of Elisha · 896 BC · 8 verses
6 Reign of Ahaziah (Jehoahaz) · 885 BC · 2 verses
7 Reign of Jehu · 885 BC · 2 verses
8 Reign of Joash · 878 BC · 2 verses
9 Reign of Jehoahaz · 856 BC · 3 verses
10 Prophecies of Amos · 787 BC · 1 verse
11 Prophecies of Isaiah · 758 BC · 6 verses
12 Reign of Jotham · 757 BC · 1 verse
13 Reign of Ahaz · 742 BC · 3 verses
14 Prophecies of Ezekiel · 592 BC · 2 verses
15 Birth of Jesus · 3 BC · 1 verse
16 Jesus' 1st Tour of Galilee · 28 AD · 1 verse
17 Jerusalem Council · 46 AD · 1 verse
18 Second Missionary Journey · 46 AD · 3 verses
19 Third Missionary Journey · 50 AD · 1 verse
20 Mission to Macedonia and Greece · 54 AD · 1 verse

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

(Heb. Aram), the name in the Old Testament given to the whole country which lay to the north-east of Phoenicia, extending to beyond the Euphrates and the Tigris. Mesopotamia is called (Gen. 24:10; Deut. 23:4) Aram-naharain (=Syria of the two rivers), also Padan-aram (Gen. 25:20). Other portions of Syria were also known by separate names, as Aram-maahah (1 Chr. 19:6), Aram-beth-rehob (2 Sam. 10:6), Aram-zobah (2 Sam. 10:6, 8). All these separate little kingdoms afterwards became subject to Damascus. In the time of the Romans, Syria included also a part of Palestine and Asia Minor.

“From the historic annals now accessible to us, the history of Syria may be divided into three periods: The first, the period when the power of the Pharaohs was dominant over the fertile fields or plains of Syria and the merchant cities of Tyre and Sidon, and when such mighty conquerors as Thothmes III. and Rameses II. could claim dominion and levy tribute from the nations from the banks of the Euphrates to the borders of the Libyan desert. Second, this was followed by a short period of independence, when the Jewish nation in the south was growing in power, until it reached its early zenith in the golden days of Solomon; and when Tyre and Sidon were rich cities, sending their traders far and wide, over land and sea, as missionaries of civilization, while in the north the confederate tribes of the Hittites held back the armies of the kings of Assyria. The third, and to us most interesting, period is that during which the kings of Assyria were dominant over the plains of Syria; when Tyre, Sidon, Ashdod, and Jerusalem bowed beneath the conquering armies of Shalmaneser, Sargon, and Sennacherib; and when at last Memphis and Thebes yielded to the power of the rulers of Nineveh and Babylon, and the kings of Assyria completed with terrible fulness the bruising of the reed of Egypt so clearly foretold by the Hebrew prophets.”, Boscawen.

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

Named in 64 verses

Judges: 10:6
1 Kings: 10:29, 11:25, 15:18, 19:15, 20:1, 20:20, 20:22, 20:23, 20:27, 20:29, 22:1, 22:3, 22:31
2 Kings: 5:1, 5:5, 6:8, 6:11, 6:24, 8:7, 8:9, 8:13, 8:28, 8:29, 9:14, 9:15, 12:17, 12:18, 13:3, 13:4, 13:7, 13:17, 13:19, 13:22, 13:24, 15:37, 16:5, 16:6, 16:7
2 Chronicles: 1:17, 16:2, 16:7, 18:30, 22:5, 22:6, 28:5, 28:23
Isaiah: 7:1, 7:2, 7:4, 7:5, 7:8, 17:3
Ezekiel: 16:57, 27:16
Amos: 1:5
Matthew: 4:24
Luke: 2:2
Acts: 15:23, 15:41, 18:18, 20:3, 21:3
Galatians: 1:21

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.