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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(Land of
Aram
). The plateau of Western
Asia
, whence flow its great rivers
Euphrates
, Tigris, Araxes (
2 Kings 19:37
37
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead. (2 Kings 19:37)
;
Isa. 37:38
38
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead. (Isaiah 37:38)
).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
This name occurs in the AV (KJV) in
2 Kings 19:37
37
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead. (2 Kings 19:37)
and
Isaiah 37:38
38
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead. (Isaiah 37:38)
, as the place to which two sons of
Sennacherib
fled after killing their
father
; but in both these passages the
Hebrew
word is
Ararat
. Armenia occurs in the LXX in the
passage
in Isaiah. Armenia lies
west
of the Caspian
Sea
, and extends northward of 38° N. lat. It is now partly in the Russian and partly in the Turkish empires.
Jackson’s
Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
:
same as Ararat
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