Treasury of Scripture
the gods
Isaiah 36:20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand...
Isaiah 46:5-7 To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like...
Gozan
2 Kings 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria...
2 Kings 18:11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel to Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan...
2 Kings 19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph...
Haran. Haran, the Carrhae 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.
Genesis 11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife...
Genesis 12:14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
Genesis 28:10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
Genesis 29:4 And Jacob said to them, My brothers, from where be you? And they said, Of Haran are we.
Acts 7:2 And he said, Men, brothers, and fathers, listen; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia...
Eden. It is probable that this Eden is the country near Diarbekir, on the Tigris, called Madon, according to Asseman.
Genesis 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Ezekiel 27:23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were your merchants.
Ezekiel 28:13 You have been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl...
Amos 1:5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven...
Telassar. Telassar is probably the same as Ellasar, 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.
Genesis 14:1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam...
2 Kings 19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph...
