Isaiah 37:12 (KJV)

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Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed as Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the children of Eden which were in Telassar

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the gods. Isa 36:20 Isa 46:5-7

Gozan. 2Ki 17:6 2Ki 18:11 2Ki 19:12

Haran.Haran, the Carrhæ 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. Ge 11:31 Ge 12:14 Ge 28:10 Ge 29:4 Ac 7:2

Eden.It is probable that this Eden is the country near Diarbekir, on the Tigris, called Mâdon, according to Asseman. Ge 2:8 Eze 27:23 Eze 28:13 Am 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.

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