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Luz

Luz, a Canaanite city that was destroyed, and another city built by a man who had betrayed the first Luz (Judges 1:26). Mentioned once in Scripture, at Judges 1:26.

Why it matters. A Canaanite city; a man built another city named Luz

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Location
37.000, 36.570 (approximate, within about 2 km)

Coordinates from STEPBible TIPNR (palopenmaps.org link). Approximate; not independently verified.

Last reviewed
2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team

About Luz

Luz is mentioned in Judges 1:26 as a Canaanite city that was destroyed by the Israelites. However, the man who had betrayed the city to the Israelites escaped and went to the land of the Hittites, where he built another city and named it Luz. No further details about the location are provided in the Bible.

Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.

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Appears in Scripture

Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.

  • Judges (1 verse)

    1:26

Record type: Place. FaithGraph explanations on this page are editorial and are not Scripture.