How to read the atlas
Step through the chapters with Next and Previous, or press the left and right arrow keys. Each chapter moves the map, prints the key verses in full and explains them. You can drag and zoom the map at any point, or use the + and − buttons; with the map selected, the arrow keys move it. Reset view returns to the chapter’s view.
What comes from the text, and what is drawn
The atlas keeps three things apart. The verses are printed in full from the King James Version. The explanation states what we believe the passages teach, and says so plainly. The drawing sometimes has to supply what Scripture does not give: the exact course of a river, the width of each tribe’s band, the line of a highway. Where that happens, a note under the chapter says so.
Modern borders appear only to help you find your way. A country being shaded or named does not make its people enemies or friends of anyone. In Ezekiel 38 the arrows begin in the region associated with each ancient name; they are not invasion routes.
Sources
- Scripture: King James Version. Every quotation is taken verbatim from the KJV text.
- Geography: Natural Earth 1:50m countries and 1:10m rivers and lakes (public domain), simplified away from the Holy Land, where the maps are only seen at small scale. Drawn with D3.
- John Thomas, Elpis Israel (1849), and Robert Roberts, Christendom Astray, lecture 16, for the traditional Christadelphian identifications of Gog and Tarshish.
- The holy oblation follows the measurements of Ezekiel 48 in reeds (48:8), using the 6-cubit reed of Henry Sulley’s reconstruction. The tribal portions are drawn equal in area.
Read the promises in full: Life in the Kingdom · Ezekiel’s temple and New Jerusalem models · Prophecy studies