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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(as demons). The country lying along the
Euphrates
on both sides, and between it and the Tigris, for
three
or four hundred miles back from their mouths (
Gen. 10:10; 11:31
10
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. (Genesis 10:10)
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. (Genesis 11:31)
;
Job 1:17
17
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. (Job 1:17)
).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
This
was strictly
the
southern part of
Babylonia
, but the
many
references in
scripture
to the
Chaldeans
show that the inhabitants of the whole of Babylonia are alluded to by that
name
. Perhaps Ur is the
only
place
in Chaldea proper to which scripture definitely refers. This was apparently a maritime
city
, which agrees
with
the country extending to the
Persian
Gulf; but the Gulf has receded far from where the
river
once joined it. The land of
Shinar
adjoined Chaldea on the
north
, in which were the early cities of
Babel
,
Erech
,
Accad
and
Calneh
(
Gen. 10:10
10
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. (Genesis 10:10)
). The whole district was situated between the rivers Tigris and the
Euphrates
, but extended
west
of the latter. It was anciently well watered by canals, and is judged to
have
been productive. Herodotus says mounds were built where the river once spread like a
sea
through the whole plain. Now
all
is desolation,
some
parts very dry, and others a mere swamp, with lines of mounds in various directions. The prophecies declared that it would be so, but as stated above,
they
refer to the whole of Babylonia (
Jer. 1:10
10
See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant. (Jeremiah 1:10)
;
Jer. 51:24, 35
24
And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the Lord. (Jeremiah 51:24)
35
The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. (Jeremiah 51:35)
;
Ezek. 11:24
24
Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. (Ezekiel 11:24)
;
Ezek. 16:29
29
Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. (Ezekiel 16:29)
;
Ezek. 23:15-16
15
Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
16
And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. (Ezekiel 23:15‑16)
).
Jackson’s
Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
:
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