Bible Location
1 cross reference
Elkosh was the birthplace of Nahum according to the book's heading. It is important because it anchors a prophet of Assyrian judgment in a real though uncertain local setting. First appears in Nah 1:1.1
AI summary: Elkosh matters because prophetic voices are often tied to place even when the place later becomes obscure. The name gives Nahum's message a human and geographic point of origin.1
| Book | Cross-References |
|---|---|
| Nah |
Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.