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Sabaste (city of Samaria) 1 Kings 16:29-32; 20:1-40; 22:37-39; 2 Kings 3:1; 6:19-7:20; 13:1, 6, 9-13; 17:1-6; 18:10; Micah 1:6; Amos 3:12, 15, 6:1, 4

Safed

None

Samaria (the region)

1 Kings 13:32; 2 Kings 17:24; Hosea 8:5, Amos 3:9; Obadiah 19; John 4:4, 5, 9; Acts 8:1, 14

Sea of Galilee (Chinnereth also Chinneroth, Gennesaret)

Deuteronomy 3:17; Joshua 12:3; 13:27; 19:35; Numbers 34:11; 1 Kings 15:20; Matthew 4:18-22, 34; 8:18-27; 15:29; Mark 4:35-41; 5:1; 6:53; Luke 5:1-11; 
John 21:1-23

Senir

Deuteronomy 3:9; Song of Solomon 4:8; Ezekiel 27:5

Sepphoris

Josephus, Life 373-380; Antiquities 17:271, 289; Ant. 18:27; War 2:68, 510-511, 572-4, 629, 645-6; War 3:29-34, 59-61.

Shacharut

None

Shadmot Mechola

None

Sha’ar Hagolan

None

Sharon

1 Chronicles 27:29; Song of Solomon 2:1; Isaiah 33:9; 35:235

Shechem

Genesis 12:6-7; 33:18-20; 37:12-16; Joshua 24:1, 25, 32; Judges 9:1-6; 1 Kings 12; Psalm 60:6; Jeremiah 41:4-5

Shephelah  None

Shepherds’ Fields 
(see Bethlehem)

Luke 2:8-14

Shiloh

Joshua 18:1; 21:2; 22:12; Judges 18:31; 21:19; 1 Samuel 1:3-28; 2:12-4:18; 1 Kings 14:2-4; Psalms 78:60; Jeremiah 7:12-14

Shivta

None

Shunem

Joshua 19:18; 1 Samuel 28:4; 2 Kings 4:8

Socoh

Joshua 15:35, 48; 1 Samuel 17:1; 1 Kings 4:10

Sodom (Lot's Wife)

Genesis 13:10-13; 14; 18:16-33; 19; Matthew 11:23, 24

Sorek Valley

Judges 16:4

Sussita (Hippos)

City of the Decapolis: Matthew 4:25; Mark 5:20; 7:31; Josephus, Antiquities 14:75; Ant. 15:217; Ant. 17:320; War 2:477-8.

Susiya

None

Sychar (Jacob's Well)

John 4:5