Chaldea
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Chaldea in the Bible Dictionary
- (The southern portion of Babylonia, often used interchangeably with Babylon, as the name of the empire founded in the valley of the Euphrates)
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Abraham a native of
Gen 11:28, 31; 15:7
28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
Genesis 11:2831 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; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Genesis 11:317 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
Genesis 15:7 -
Founded by the Assyrians
Isa 23:13
13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
Isaiah 23:13 -
Character of its people
Hab 1:6
6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.
Habakkuk 1:6 - See Babylon
- See Chaldeans
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
