Isa 37:12

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the gods.

Isa 36:20; Isa 46:5-7

Gozan.

2Kgs 17:6; 2Kgs 18:11; 2Kgs 19:12

Haran.

Haran, the Carrh�of the Greeks and Romans, is situated in the north-west part of Mesopotamia, between the Euphrates and the river Chebar; about 110 miles west of Nisibis, 90 east of Bir, 100 south of Diarbekir, and 170 north of Palmyra.

Gen 11:31; Gen 12:14; Gen 28:10; Gen 29:4; Acts 7:2

Eden.

It is probable that this Eden is the country near Diarbekir, on the Tigris, called M�on, according to Asseman.

Gen 2:8; Ezek 27:23; Ezek 28:13; Amos 1:5

Telassar.

Telassar is probably the same as Ellasar, Ge 14:1, as the Jerusalem Targum reads; for both of which the Syriac has Dolassar; and perhaps, as Doederlein supposes, the same as Sharra, a city of Mesopotamia, half a mile from the Euphrates.

2Ki 19:12

Thelasar.