The first return from Babylon

The Book of Ezra names where the returns began and ended — and, for Ezra’s company, the Ahava Canal, whose site is not known — but does not describe the road. The straight line is not the way they went.

Lines join the stops in the order of the text — the roads themselves are not known. Dashed: by ship. Pale: the site is uncertain.

Stops

1. 1
   BabylonEzra 1:11In all, there were 5,400 gold and silver articles. Sheshbazzar brought all these along when the exiles went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
2. 2
   JerusalemEzra 2:1Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town,

Each point is the most likely site (OpenBible.info); a pale point means the identification is uncertain. Places whose site is unknown are not on the map.