Isaiah 37:12

Hezekiah Consults Isaiah

¹¹ Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries: they completely destroyed them. Will you be rescued? ¹² Did the gods of the nations that my predecessors destroyed rescue them—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the Edenites in Telassar? ¹³ Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah?’”

Gods of the Nations

My Father

Eden

Gozan

Haran

Mesopotamia

Rezeph

Telassar

Genesis 11:31

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran’s son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.

2 Kings 17:6

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria. He deported the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah and by the Habor, Gozan’s river, and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 18:11

The king of Assyria deported the Israelites to Assyria and put them in Halah and by the Habor, Gozan’s river, and in the cities of the Medes,

2 Kings 19:12

Did the gods of the nations that my predecessors destroyed rescue them—nations such as Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the Edenites in Telassar?

Acts 7:2

“Brothers and fathers,” he said, “listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

Genesis 2:8

The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there He placed the man He had formed.

Genesis 12:1-4

The Lord said to Abram:

Go out from your land,
your relatives,
and your father’s house
to the land that I will show you.

Genesis 12:14

When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Genesis 28:10

Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward Haran.

Genesis 29:4

Jacob asked the men at the well, “My brothers! Where are you from?”

“We’re from Haran,” they answered.

Isaiah 36:20

Who among all the gods of these lands ever delivered his land from my power? So will the Lord deliver Jerusalem.”

Isaiah 46:5-7

“Who will you compare Me or make Me equal to?
Who will you measure Me with,
so that we should be like each other?

Ezekiel 27:23

Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.

Ezekiel 28:13

You were in Eden, the garden of God.
Every kind of precious stone covered you:
carnelian, topaz, and diamond,
beryl, onyx, and jasper,
sapphire, turquoise and emerald.
Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold;
they were prepared on the day you were created.

Amos 1:5

I will break down the gates of Damascus.
I will cut off the ruler from the Valley of Aven,
and the one who wields the scepter from Beth-eden.
The people of Aram will be exiled to Kir.
The Lord has spoken.