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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 37:12 - 37:12
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Gozan - in Mesopotamia, on the Chabour (2Ki 17:6; 2Ki 18:11). Gozan is the name of the district, Chabour of the river.
Haran - more to the west. Abraham removed to it from Ur (Gen 11:31); the Carroe of the Romans.
Rezeph - farther west, in Syria.
Eden - There is an ancient village, Adna, north of Baghdad. Some think Eden to be the name of a region (of Mesopotamia or its vicinity) in which was Paradise; Paradise was not Eden itself (Gen 2:8). “A garden in Eden.”
Telassar - now Tel-afer, west of Mosul [Layard]. Tel means a “hill” in Arabic and Assyrian names.