Between the Testaments
Mary Visits Elizabeth
Mary Visits Elizabeth is dated 5 BC. It is told in Luke 1:39–56. Mary (Mother of Jesus), Elisabeth are part of it.
In those days Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judah,
When did it happen?
- Modern reckoning
- 5 BC
- Traditional reckoning
- 5 BC
Dates before about 900 BC depend on how the Bible's own numbers are added up. Why the two reckonings differ.
Where is it in the Bible?
Who was there, and where?
Which verses connect to Luke 1:39?
The strongest cross-references of the key verse, ranked by reader votes (OpenBible.info).
- Luke 1:653 votes
All their neighbors were filled with awe, and people throughout the hill country of Judea were talking about these events.
- Joshua 10:402 votes
So Joshua conquered the whole region—the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, and the slopes, together with all their kings—leaving no survivors. He devoted to destruction everything that breathed, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.
- Joshua 15:48–592 votes
These were in the hill country: Shamir, Jattir, Socoh, Dannah, Kiriath-sannah (that is, Debir), …
- Joshua 20:71 vote
So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
- Joshua 21:9–111 vote
From the tribes of Judah and Simeon, they designated these cities by name to the descendants of Aaron from the Kohathite clans of the Levites, because the first lot fell to them: …
Events, people and places: Theographic Bible Metadata (Robert Rouse), CC BY-SA 4.0, reshaped; dates also from the sources named on each anchor.