Erech
Town · today Uruk
Location well established About 990 km (610 miles) east of Jerusalem
Named in 2 Verses
- Genesis 10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- Ezra 4:9 Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites,
Locations from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Terrain from Natural Earth and NASA SRTM.