Forest of Hereth
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Named at 1 Samuel 22:5, where the prophet Gad says to David, “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah.” Then David departs, and comes into the forest of Hereth.
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- 1SA 22:3–5, engwebp
3David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come out to you, until I know what God will do for me.”
4He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
5The prophet Gad said to David, “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah.” Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.
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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Hereth” by name and 1 shared verse. The coordinate of its leading identification, Kharas (confidence 356 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event.
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- Kharas
OpenBible.info confidence 356 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.61411, 35.04313
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Hereth” (CC BY 4.0)
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Narrated location (1) — David goes to Mizpeh of Moab and makes his request to the king of Moab, and the prophet Gad tells him to go into the land of Judah
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Forest of Hereth (place-forest-of-hereth) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/forest-of-hereth Current wording: Named at 1 Samuel 22:5, where the prophet Gad says to David, “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah.” Then David departs, and comes into the forest of Hereth. Cited evidence: 1SA 22:3–5, engwebp Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.