Land of Zuph
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Named at 1 Samuel 9:5: “When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, ‘Come! Let’s return, lest my father stop caring about the donkeys and be anxious for us.’”
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- 1SA 9:3–5, engwebp
3The donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost. Kish said to Saul his son, “Now take one of the servants with you, and arise, go look for the donkeys.”
4He passed through the hill country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they didn’t find them. Then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and they weren’t there. Then he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they didn’t find them.
5When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come! Let’s return, lest my father stop caring about the donkeys and be anxious for us.”
AI-assisted, human review pending, 2026-09-26
Machine comparison on 2026-10-07: the wording raised none of the 3 rules against the passages this entry cites. No person has read it.
Geographic sources & candidates
Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Zuph” by name and 1 shared verse. The centre of the area given for its leading identification, about 10 km around Ramathaim-zophim (confidence 695 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event.
AI-assisted source review; human approval pending, 2026-09-29
- about 10 km around Ramathaim-zophim
OpenBible.info confidence 695 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.85434, 35.23161
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Zuph” (CC BY 4.0)
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Narrated location (1) — Saul goes with a servant to look for the lost donkeys of Kish
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Land of Zuph (place-land-of-zuph) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/land-of-zuph Current wording: Named at 1 Samuel 9:5: “When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, ‘Come! Let’s return, lest my father stop caring about the donkeys and be anxious for us.’” Cited evidence: 1SA 9:3–5, 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.