Modern locations of places in the Bible:

El Jai Cave

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Also Called	El Jaia Cave
Latitude, Longitude	31.847620, 35.305139
Palestine 1928 Grid Coordinates (?)	178981/139419
Type	cave
Point Precision	20 m
Coordinates Sources	Amud Anan Corona Atlas and Referencing System Israel GovMap Palestine Open Maps
General Location Notes	Baker Illustrated Bible Dictionary (2013) (Sela): “1.2 miles east of Geba”
Precise Coordinates Notes	Eshel and Zissu, Coins from the el-Jai Cave in Nahal Mikhmash (2002) (page 169) has a plan of the interior; Israel Tours (2020) has exterior photos; Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (1992) (Migron) has a map that’s not quite detailed enough to locate it precisely; Greenberg and Keinan, Israeli Archaeological Activity in the West Bank, 1967-2007 (2009) provides coordinates for the nearby monastic complex
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Biblical places associated with El Jai Cave

Rimmon 1: low confidence
Gidom: low confidence
Harmon: very low confidence

10-meter-per-pixel satellite Image

Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2019 (modified)

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