Genesis 26:33 He called it Shibah. ", Judges 11:8 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon; and you shall be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead. Succoth After the Hebrews left this first campsite, the Lord attended them in a cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night ( Ex. The town was situated in a narrow valley - the "Valley of the Eschol; " whose sides are clothed with vineyards, groves of olives, and other fruit trees. Judges 20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah. The first occurrence of Mahanaim occurs in Genesis 32:1 in the story of Jacob's return to the land after having spent 20 years with his uncle Laban in Haran (located in modern Syria). Terah died in Haran. History: Bethel was a royal city of the Canaanites (Josh 12:16). Here he met his bride (Genesis 29:4), and in the neighboring pastures he tended the flocks of Laban. The Nile is also the principal river included in the phrase nahare kush, "rivers of Ethiopia" (Isa 18:1). Here he met his bride (Gen 29:4), and in the neighboring pastures he tended the flocks of Laban. Calories Bicycling 185.134 kcal Running 178.121 kcal Jogging 171.108 kcal CO2 Emission VS Trees Flight 643.04 kg (10780Trees) Bike 240.17 kg (4026 Trees) Car )Zs^$_` H It reads: "Ur-Ba'u, king of Ur, who built the temple of the moon-god." Haran and the temple suffered much damage in the invasion of the Umman-Manda (the Medes). What is the distance between Haran and Canaan? Ge 24:10 with Gene 27:43 It is said to be in Mesopotamia, Ge 24:10 or more definitely in Padan-aram, ch. In Egypt Abraham deceived the King in order to save his own life and was expelled from the land of Egypt (Gen. 12:9-20). HtU]o0|c(6d/q9.-+v- his hands are tied by invisible power (Ps 76:10). Acts 7:4 Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. It is represented by the modern Beitin, a village of some 400 inhabitants, which stands on a knoll East of the road to Nablus. endstream endobj 41 0 obj <>stream Shechem was for a time Ephraim's civil capital. The frontiers between the tribes of Reuben, Gad and Manasseh cannot be indicated with any certainty. According to Josh 15:13 it was so called after Arba, the father of Anak. 1. 2:9; II Kings 10:33; Ezek. 3. 15:10), who probably expected to find his chief support in the tribe of Judah, now called el-Khulil. Stanley says it is "the most beautiful, perhaps the only very beautiful, spot in Central Israel." (Gen. 13:1-9).8. The existence of "bears," two, near the town, implies that Bethel was then less frequented (2 Kings 2:23- 25). 33:8 ). In later ages it was called Edessa, and was celebrated as the capital of Abgarus or Acbarus who was said to have received the letter and portrait of our Saviour. He Builds altar at Shechem . The valley runs from north to south, and the main quarter of the town, surmounted by the lofty walls of the great mosque, lies partly on the eastern slope. Joshua 22:9 The children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they owned, according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses. Harran was in Mesopotamia, and took its name from the highroad which led through it from the east to the west. Egypt. (to feign) a. to pretend. Alexander Janneus, who had subdued Gilead, was forced to yield it again to the king of Arabia (Ant., XIII, xiv, 2; BJ, I, iv, 3). Gilead." The round-trip, not counting the time in Haran . Abraham remained at Beersheba for some time. Answer Gilead was a fertile, mountainous area east of the Jordan River. And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled. Poetically the Nile is called yam, "sea" (Job 41:31; Nah 3:8; probably Isa 18:2), but this is not a name of the river. "Two, physical features must have secured Orfah, from the earliest times, as a nucleus for the civilization of those regions. (See SYCHAR T0003542. Ur was also a cemetery and city of tombs, doubtless because of its sacred character, from whence the dead were brought to it from vast distances for 1,800 years. Ge 37:14 comp. When Jacob came hither on his way to Paddan-aram we are told that he lighted upon "the place" (Gen 28:11. "Ur was consecrated to the worship of Sin, the Babylonian moon-god. He lived some twenty-eight hundred years B.C., and took part in building the famous temple of the moon-god Sin in Ur itself. Egyptians distinguished between Hapi-res, the "southern Nile" of Upper Egypt, and Hapi-meheet, the "northern Nile" of Lower Egypt. Judges 11:11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah. Hence the prophet Hosea (Hos. ), and here Caracalla was assassinated (217 A.D.). Also called SICHEM, SYCHEM, and SYCHAR (John 4:5; Joshua 20:7; Judges 9:9; 1 Kings 12:25). Numbers 32:1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for livestock; Numbers 32:3 "Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon, Numbers 32:5 They said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; don't bring us over the Jordan.". Ac 7:2,4 These are all the indications which Scripture furnishes as to its locality. 1. 33:5 ). The third son of Kohath the Levite (Ex. 2. The privileges then lost were restored by Sargon II. his hands are tied by invisible power (Ps 76:10). There are 412.62 miles from Jerusalem to Gilead in northwest direction and 587 miles (944.68 kilometers) by car, following the I-135 N route. The eldest son of Terah, brother of Abraham and Nahor, and father of Lot, Milcah, and Iscah. A city in Samaria (Gen. 33:18), called also Sichem (12:6), Sychem (Acts 7:16). Again, along with Bashan, it indicates the land East of Jordan, as distinguished from the Moab plateau (Deuteronomy 3:10 Joshua 13:11 2 Kings 10:33).2.Bashan:In the North Gilead bordered upon Geshur and Maacah (Joshua 13:11, 13); and here the natural boundary would be formed by the deep gorge of the Yarmuk and Wady esh-Shellaleh. Apparently there were Israelites in it after the captivity, some of whom on their way to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem met a tragic fate at the hands of Ishmael ben Nethaniah (Jer 41:5 ff). The miles based distance from Haran to Canaan is 7568.9 miles. There the prophet from Judah foretold the overthrow of the calf altar by Josiah. "(1) A city named in Hosea 6:8; Hosea 12:11, possibly to be identified with Gilead near to Mizpah (Judges 10:17). It was probably "the city of Nahor" to which Abraham's servant came to find a wife for Isaac (Gen 24:10 ff). The situation is lovely; the valley runs W. with a soil of rich, black, vegetable mold, watered by fountains, sending forth numerous streams flowing W.; orchards of fruit, olive groves, gardens of vegetables, and verdure on all sides delight the eye. Third son of Kohath; younger brother of Amram, father of Moses and Aaron (Exodus 6:18). And they said, Of Haran [are] we.Genesis 11:27 - Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.1 Chronicles 2:46 - And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez.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; 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. seven days' journey] The distance from Haran to the land of Gilead for a company with flocks and herds would require a longer time. (Porter and Rawlinson favor this last place. To the unprejudiced mind there is no escape from the conclusion that the history of the migration of Terah from Ur to Harran is founded on fact" (Sayce).Ur in Fausset's Bible Dictionary Of the Chaldees (Genesis 11:28; Genesis 11:31; Genesis 15:7; Nehemiah 9:7), from which Terah, Abraham, and Lot were called. The surrounding country is bleak and barren, the hills being marked by a succession of stony terraces, which may have suggested the form of the ladder in Jacob's famous dream. There is a real-world town called Harran in Turkey's anlurfa Province close to the border with Syria. In their conquest of the Jordan Valley they captured Lot as a prisoner of war, and when Abraham heard of it he pursued the four kings and overtook them at Dan and defeated them with the help of the Lord (Gen. 14:1-14), Abraham had assembled an army of 318 men. The History of Rome - Brief Overview Of Roman History from Her Dawn to the First Punic War. Why have you come to me now when you are in distress? The shortest road distance between Haran to Hebron is 861 Km. Josephus (B. J. The third resting place of Abram; Shechem was the first, Bethel the second. A city of Judah, Jos 15:54 situated among the mountains, Jos 20:7 20 Roman miles south of Jerusalem, and the same distance north of Beersheba. The journey probably took months. A descendant of Manasseh (Num. endstream endobj 40 0 obj <>stream He builds an altar between Ai & Bethel at the spot later known as Ai of Joshua. In one part of the modern city is a great mosque, which is built over the grave of Machpelah. From this place the patriarch departed for Egypt by way of Beersheba (37:14; 46:1). It was in the territory of Ephraim; it was made a city of refuge, and assigned to the Kohathite Levites (Josh 20:7; 21:21). Jos 21:20,21 It acquired new importance as the scene of the renewed promulgation of the law, when its blessings were heard from Gerizim and its curses from Ebal, and the people bowed their heads and acknowledged Jehovah as their king and ruler. (3.) 16:1; 1 Sam. Joshua 22:15 They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying. The loT, translated "myrrh" in the above passage, was probably the gum produced by the Cistus ladaniferus, a flower which still abounds in Gilead.6. Free! in the extreme south of Chaldaea, at Mugheir, not very far above-- and probably in the time of Abraham actually upon-- the head of the Persian Gulf. 23:3; Jer. Helpful Inaccurate. It was evidently the center, especially for the northern tribes; and hither Rehoboam came in the hope of getting his succession to the throne confirmed (1 Ki 12:1; 2 Ch 10:1). Jacob's Journey (28:10-11) I've already mentioned the distance of Jacob's journey & that in this passage he is near the beginning of this journey. within 150 miles of Mount Gilead. 11h 35m. THE city of Nabulus, one of the most ancient in Israel, is also one of the most interesting. Remains of the old cathedral are also conspicuous. It became, four centuries later, the first great gathering place of the Israelites after their occupation of the Promised Land. And the men went up and viewed Ai.1 Kings 13:1 - And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead. How striking and sudden a change! Gaza, near Shechem, only mentioned 1 Chr. Ur lies six miles distant from the present coarse of the Euphrates, and 125 from the sea; though it is thought it was anciently a maritime town, and that its present inland site is due to the accumulation of alluvium (?). Hebron is one of the most ancient cities in the world still existing; and in this respect it is the rival of Damascus. Its spacious uplands, its wooded and well-watered valleys have been for centuries the pasture-land of the nomads.LITERATURE.Useful information will be found in Merrill, East of the Jordan; Oliphant, Land of Gilead; Thomson, LB; and especially in Conder, Heth and Moab, and in Memoirs of the Survey of Eastern PalestineW. 4. It lies along the Balkh River, 24 miles (38 km) southeast of Urfa. The trip from Beersheba to Damascus is about 282 road miles. The White Nile, the principal branch of the North, rises in Victoria Nyanza, a great lake in Central Africa, a few miles North of the equator, long. 1Ch 15:9; 23:19 2. Jeremiah 22:6 For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, and the head of Lebanon; yet surely I will make you a wilderness, and. After various vicissitudes it fell into the Moslems' hands in A.D. 1187, and has continued so ever since. The site of Shechem is said to be of unrivalled beauty. gil'-e-ad (ha-gil`adh, "the Gilead"): The name is explained in Genesis 31:46, 51, as derived from Hebrew gal, "a cairn," and `edh, "witness," agreeing in meaning with the Aramaic yegharsahadhutha'. of God, a favorite name for Abraham; compare Jas 2:23). From the First Cataract, at Syene, the river flows smoothly at the rate of two or three miles an hour with a width of half a mile. Hither came Jacob when he fled from Esau's anger (Gen 27:43). 4. Map from Haran to Hebron Total Driving Distance Travelled is 3099 Km Driving Distance 3099 Driving Time 47 hrs 23 mins Flight Distance 1039 Flight Time 1 hr 47 mins Directions Go! But as the distance from Haran to the most northerly part of this country (afterwards assigned to the half-tribe of Manasseh) was fully three hundred miles, it would require hard riding on the part of Laban and his brethren to enable them to overtake Jacob, even on the borders of this region. 2. Abraham and his army of servants smote the army of the 4 kings of Chedorlaomer and chased them to Hobah, which was located near Damascus. Travellers vie with each other in the language which they employ to describe the scene that here bursts so suddenly upon them on arriving in spring or early summer at this paradise of the holy land. Isaiah 37:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar? The name Jebel Jil`ad is still, indeed, applied to a mountain South of Nahr ez-Zerqa and North of es-Salt; but this does not meet the necessities of the passage as it stands. In the 4th century it was the seat of a bishopric; but the cult of the moon persisted far into the Christian centuries. Twenty Roman miles S. of Jerusalem, and twenty N. of Beersheba. Thus Jacob had reached Canaanite grounda matter of very considerable importancebefore his father-in-law overtook him. Numbers 32:11 'Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: Numbers 32:19 For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.". Map. why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered? Abraham sent his servant to his home country to find a wife for Isaac (Genesis 24:1-10). It was built "seven years before Zoan in Egypt" (Gen. 13:18; Num. Joshua 12:2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon; Joshua 12:5 and ruled in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon. Ritter makes Medinet Gai answer to Ai. --Bartlett. In the Hebrew the country Haran begins with 'ch', the man Haran with 'h', as also the Haran the Gershonite Levite under David of Shimei's family (1 Chronicles 23:9). Deuteronomy 3:12 This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead, and its cities, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites: Deuteronomy 3:13 and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. pronominal verb. Later he gave birth to a natural son of him and Sarah in his old age, he named him Isaac which means "laughter". --Stanley, Jewish Church, part i.p.7. that Jacob was fled. Ezekiel speaks of the merchants of Haran as trading with Tyre (27:23). It was a prominent place in the days of the Patriarchs, and is frequently mentioned in the Book of Genesis. Judges 11:5 It was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob; Judges 11:7 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "Didn't you hate me, and drive me out of my father's house? Gerar. Gen 37:29-35 The brothers dip Joseph's coat in blood, then trick Jacob into believing that Joseph has been killed by a wild animal. In Acts 7:2,4, the King James Version gives the name as Charran.Genesis 11:29 - And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife [was] Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.Genesis 12:4 - So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram [was] seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.Genesis 12:5 - And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.Genesis 11:32 - And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.Ezekiel 27:23 - Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, [and] Chilmad, [were] thy merchants.2 Kings 19:12 - 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 Thelasar?Isaiah 37:12 - 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?Genesis 11:26 - And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.Genesis 27:43 - Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;1 Chronicles 23:9 - The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. 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