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Judaean Desert Location of Judaean Desert in Israel and the West Bank in red. The Judaean Desert or Judean Desert (Arabic: برية الخليل, romanized: Bariyat al-Khalil, Hebrew: מִדְבַּר יְהוּדָה, romanized: Midbar Yehuda) is a desert in the West Bank and Israel that lies east of the Judaean Mountains, so east of Jerusalem, and descends to the Dead Sea.
The site is first mentioned as one of the cities of Judah. [10] [11] Maon was the place of birth of Nabal the Carmelite. [12] In the Book of Samuel, [13] "the wilderness of Maon" is mentioned as a place of refuge for David when he fled from king Saul. [10] The site is not referred to again in biblical sources. [10]
The Judaean Mountains are part of a more extended range that runs in a north-south direction. The ridge consists of the Samarian Hills in its northern part, and of the Judaean Mountains in its southern part, the two segments meeting at the latitude of Ramallah.
The word פִּסְגָּה literally means "summit." The region lies directly east of the Jordan River and just northeast of the Dead Sea. Mount Nebo (31°45.9'N 35°43.1'E) is the highest among a handful of Pisgah summits; an arid cluster of hilltops on the western edge of the Trans-Jordanian Plateau.
Secacah (Hebrew: סְכָכָה, səkākā) is a town mentioned in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament as well as in the Dead Sea Scrolls.The town was located in the wilderness of Judah, otherwise known as the Judean Desert, and is identified by some scholars with the archaeological site of Khirbet Qumran.
"The Window Dry Fall", overlooking Ein Gedi and the Dead Sea, Israel. Ein Gedi (Hebrew: עֵין גֶּדִי, romanized: ʿĒn Geḏi, Arabic: عين جدي, romanized: ʿAyn Gidī), also spelled En Gedi, [1] meaning "spring of the kid", [2] is an oasis, an archeological site and a nature reserve in Israel, located west of the Dead Sea, near Masada and the Qumran Caves.
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"And David was in the wilderness of Ziph, in a wood" (1 Samuel 23:15). Here his friend Jonathan sought him out "and strengthened his hand in God": this was the last meeting between David and Jonathan. [7] Keilah is mentioned in the Book of Joshua (15:44) as one of the cities of the Shephelah "Lowland".