During this time he made a covenant with king Abimelech. To Shechem Joshua gathered all Israel "before God," and delivered to them his second parting address (Josh. (Porter and Rawlinson favor this last place. (3) See preceding article. 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). Its chief cult in Assyrian times was that of the moon god. 1Ch 15:9; 23:19 2. Hebron now contains about 5000 inhabitants, of whom some fifty families are Jews. It was in the northern half of Gilead Deuteronomy 3:12-13, and is noticed in Judges 11:29. During the civil war with Benjamin the tribes took the ark thither to consult God (compare 1 Samuel 10:3). It was doubtless by this oak that Jacob, on his return from Paddan-aram, buried "the strange (the American Standard Revised Version "foreign") gods" (Gen 35:4). It is found about forty times in the Old. Joab's census included Gilead (2 Samuel 24:6). Heb. (1.) Rivaling Damascus in antiquity. At length all traces of the idolatries were extirpated by Josiah, king of Judah (2 Kings 23:15-18); and the place was still in existence after the Captivity (Ezra 2:28; Neh. The total straight line distance between Haran and Egypt is 5690 KM (kilometers) and 10.2 meters. ), and here Caracalla was assassinated (217 A.D.). It was one of Samuel's towns of circuit for judging (1 Samuel 7:16). 2Ki 17:27,28 In later times Bethel is named only once under the scarcely-altered name of Beitin. A city in the south end of the valley of Eshcol, about midway between Jerusalem and Beersheba, from which it is distant about 20 miles in a straight line. These [were] the chief of the fathers of Laadan.Genesis 11:28 - And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.Genesis 28:10 - And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.Genesis 29:4 - And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence [be] ye? 14; Num. It has been suggested (Studer, Comm., at the place) that, as the Midianites lay between the men of the northern tribes and their homes, they were told to cross the Jordan, make a detour through Gilead, and thus avoid the enemy. Furthermore, there would have been no problem at all in fording the Awaj. 6. Hither came Jacob when he fled from Esau's anger (Genesis 27:43). 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. 9:37). 1 It may have taken six to twelve months. With the disruption of the kingdom came Bethel's greatest 2 Kings 23:15 - Moreover the altar that [was] at Bethel, [and] the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, [and] stamped [it] small to powder, and burned the grove.1 Chronicles 7:28 - And their possessions and habitations [were], Bethel and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:2 Kings 2:23 - And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.2 Chronicles 13:19 - And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof.1 Samuel 10:3 - Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:1 Kings 12:33 - So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, [even] in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.Joshua 8:17 - And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.1 Samuel 13:2 - Saul chose him three thousand [men] of Israel; [whereof] two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.2 Kings 23:4 - And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.Joshua 12:9 - The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which [is] beside Bethel, one;Joshua 12:16 - The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;Genesis 31:13 - I [am] the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, [and] where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.Joshua 18:13 - And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which [is] Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that [lieth] on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.1 Kings 13:4 - And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. Some routes (e.g. But we do not need to be very exacting about geographical accuracy in old-world popular stories. The modern division of the country follows the natural features. Indeed it is not named again in the history of the monarchy. The soil is not now cultivated to any great extent; but it furnishes ample pasture for many flocks and herds (Songs 6:5).The Ishmaelites from Gilead (Genesis 37:25) were carrying "spicery and balm and myrrh." Obadiah 1:19 Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. The city, near the place, then bore the Canaanite name Luz. The name appears in Assyro-Babalonian as Charran, which means "road"; possibly because here the trade route from Damascus joined that from Nineveh to Carchemish. It stood on the river Belik, an affluent of the Euphrates, about 70 miles above where it joins that river in Upper Mesopotamia or Padan-aram, and about 600 miles northwest of Ur in a direct line. granddaughter) of his father not of his mother" (Genesis 20:12). The map of ancient Mesopotamia is dotted with cities along the southern parts. There were formerly 7 mouths scattered along a coast-line of 140 miles. Here also he raised an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel, "God, the God of Israel" (Gen 33:20). Ur of the Chaldees was the original home of Abraham. 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). Check map and driving Directions from Haran to Hebron helping you find the destination easier. Father of one of David's mighty men 1Ch 11:35Ur in Smiths Bible Dictionary was the land of Haran's nativity, Ge 11:28 the place from which Terah and Abraham started "to go into the land of Canaan." The Bible also mentions that Abraham paid him 1/10th of all his spoils from the war as a "tithe". 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. A place in Central Israel, about 10 miles north of Jerusalem, at the head of the pass of Michmash and Ai. Jacob's well and the tomb of Joseph are also close by in the valley. Genesis 28:10 Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. 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. 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. The son of Hamor the Hivite (Gen. 33:19; 34). Then follows the story of Dinah's defilement by Shechem, son of the city's chief; and of the treacherous and terrible vengeance exacted by Simeon and Levi (Genesis 34). Jacob served in Laban's house for 20 years before fleeing back to Canaan (Genesis 31:1-21). It was like passing from one court of a temple into another. From Harran to Gilead is a distance of 84 miles. Abraham and his nephew Lot had departed Haran and followed the leading of the Lord. The distance to be traveled from Hebron to Haran was probably over 400 miles, perhaps as many as 450. UR OF CHALDEES TO HARAN n About 600 miles distance n Genesis 11:27-32 n Ur 50 miles south of Babylon n Death of Abraham's father Nahor (age 148) n God calls for Abraham to leave Genesis 12:1-3 Acts 7:2-4 HARAN TO SHECHEM n About 400 miles distance n Crossing Jordan at Succoth Genesis 12:1-7 within 150 miles of Mount Gilead. Haran seems to have shared in the rebellion of Assur (763 BC, the year of the solar eclipse, June 15). While not so rich as the volcanic loam in the North and in and the South, the soil of Gilead amply repays the labor of the husbandman. Bethel. Gilead is the clearly Israelite section of Transjordan and, therefore, in its broad meaning, encompassed central Transjordan, on both sides of the Jabbok, from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea (Gen. 37:25; Josh. Above this again is the white chalk of the desert plateau, the same as that found in Samaria and Lower Galilee, with bands of flint or chert in contorted layers, or strewn in pebbles on the surface. A town in the north border of Asher (Josh. bound of Israel (Joshua 13:3; 1 Chronicles 13:5; 2 Chronicles 9:26; Genesis 15:18). When Abraham was born, Shem was 390 years Old, and his father Noah was 892 years old. Probably on rising ground East of Bethel Abraham and Lot stood to view the uninviting highlands and the rich lands of the Jordan valley (Gen 13:9 ff). On the return from Babylon some of the children of Judah dwelt in Kirjath Arba (Nehemiah 11:25). How striking and sudden a change! Gaza, near Shechem, only mentioned 1 Chr. There is much history in this place (Joshua 24:1, Judges 9:6, 1 Kings 12:1).5. Gilead." 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 (?). 1. 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. This is the fastest route from Jerusalem, AR to Gilead, NE. By the conquest of the fortress Rabbah, which the Ammonites had continued to hold, the land passed finally under the power of David (2 Samuel 12:26). Son of Caleb 1Ch 2:46 -3. Ezekiel speaks of the merchants of Haran as trading with Tyre (27:23). Sarah was originally names Sarai. 47:18; Amos 1:3; etc. Abimelech, whose mother was a native of the city, persuaded the men of Shechem to make him king (Jdg 9:1-6), evidently seeking a certain consecration from association with "the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem." The third son of Kohath, who was the second son of Levi. Also Hashabiah and 1,700 Hebronites were officers "in all the Lord's business and the king's service" on the W. of Jordan. Geological Origin 3. This accounts for a school of prophets of Jehovah being there in Elijah's time (2 Kings 2:2-3). Jacob set out in haste from Beersheba and camped at Bethel (formerly Luz) before continuing on to Paddan-aram (Genesis 28:10-29:1). Terah died in Haran. Numbers 32:26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock, shall be there in the cities of Gilead; Numbers 32:29 Moses said to them, "If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before Yahweh, and the land shall be subdued before you; then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession: Numbers 32:30 but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.". The distance between the above mentioned places is 500 miles approximately. 18. Hebron is said to have been rounded before Zoan (i.e. It contains about 10,000 inhabitants, of whom about 160 are Samaritans and 100 Jews, the rest being Christians and Mohammedans. During his stay at this place Ishmael was born (Gen. 16: 1-16) and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed (Gen. 18:1 - 19:38)13. %PDF-1.6 % It was one of the greatest cities of the ancient world, and Ur was the capital of the ancient Chaldean Empire in ancient Mesopotamia. ha'-ran (charan; Charhran): The city where Terah settled on his departure from Ur (Genesis 11:31 f); whence Abram set out on his pilgrimage of faith to Canaan (Genesis 12:1). Hiel the Bethelite is recorded as the rebuilder of Jericho. Moab is 2,665.16 mi (4,289.16 km) north of the equator, so it is located in the northern hemisphere. (See Joshua 21:11; Judges 1:10.) If this thesis is correct, (and I have for the sake of brevity kept the account to the bare minimum,) then all the maps in Bible atlases, showing this part of the Levant, will have to be changed. Son of Kohath Ex 6:18; Nu 3:19; 1Ch 6:2,18; 23:12,19Hebron in Smiths Bible Dictionary (alliance). In this city Absalom found a center for his disaffection, and repairing there under pretense of performing a vow to Yahweh, he raised the standard of revolt (2 Sam 15:7 f). Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, and lived by his creeks. (to cook for oneself) a. to make oneself. It stood near the mouth of the Euphrates, on its western bank, and is represented by the mounds (of bricks cemented by bitumen) of el-Mugheir, i.e., "the bitumined," or "the town of bitumen," now 150 miles from the sea and some 6 miles from the Euphrates, a little above the point where it receives the Shat el-Hie, an affluent from the Tigris. The Location of Cemeteries 3. Best Answer. HAVVOTH-JAIR (which see), "the villages of Jair," lay in Gilead (Judges 10:4). Joshua 22:32 Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again. Son of Shemidah 1Ch 7:19Shechem in Smiths Bible Dictionary (back or shoulder). 20:7), and here the bones of Joseph were buried (24:32). The Days of the Monarchy: David, when a fugitive, received kindness from the people of this city (1 Sam 30:31); here Abner was treacherously slain by Joab at the gate (2 Sam 3:27), and the sons of Rimmon, after their hands and feet had been cut off, were hanged "beside the pool" (2 Sam 4:12). It was ordered by God that the votaries of the calf worship at Bethel never dared to violate the sepulchre and title of the prophet who denounced their idol. A descendant of Manasseh (Num. Why have you come to me now when you are in distress? "With wonderful clock-like regularity the river begins to swell about the end of June, rises 24 feet at Cairo between the 20th and 30th of September and falls as much by the middle of May. 1 Kings 17:1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.". A striking point (2,700 ft.) fully 2 miles Northwest of `Ajlun, is crowned by Qal`at er-Rabad, whence again a view of extraordinary extent is gained.5. Lot chose the warm climate and lush plains of the Jordan Valley and pitched his tent toward Sodom, and Abraham left the desirable Sodom and Gomorrah and sojourned at Hebron in Mamre where he heard again from the Lord and built an altar (Gen. 13:10-18).