Modern locations of places in the Bible:

Khirbet Hirsha

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Also Called	Hirsha, Horbat Horesh
Latitude, Longitude	31.826900, 35.049170
Palestine 1928 Grid Coordinates (?)	154750/137127
Type	settlement
Point Precision	50 m
Coordinates Sources	GeoNames Palestine Open Maps
General Location Notes	Names and Places in the Old and New Testament and Apocrypha (1889) (page 42): “1.5 miles to the east of Yalo and 12.5 [miles] southeast of Lydda” Curtis and Madsen, Chronicles I and II (1910) (page 109): “ruins of Hirsha east of Lydda”
Precise Coordinates Notes	discussed at Clermont-Ganneau, Archaeological Researches in Palestine 1873-1874, Book 2 (1896) (page 69); the route described at Wikivoyage is modeled here: OpenStreetMap; the narrative suggests the ruins are closer to 31.828405,35.046841, but I don’t see evidence of them in Israel GovMap
Geo Data	KML (for Google Earth) GeoJSON (for GIS applications)

Biblical places associated with Khirbet Hirsha

Mount Heres: low confidence
Ge-harashim: very low confidence
Valley of Salt: very low confidence
Heres: very low confidence

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