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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
The people of that country having
Babylon
for its capital (
Dan. 1:4; 5:15; 9:1
4
Children in whom was no blemish, but well favored, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans. (Daniel 1:4)
15
And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not show the interpretation of the thing: (Daniel 5:15)
1
In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; (Daniel 9:1)
).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
After
the
mention of
Ur of the
Chaldees
in
Genesis 11:28, 31
28
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. (Genesis 11:28)
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)
and
Genesis 15:7
7
And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. (Genesis 15:7)
; and the
Chaldeans
who fell upon
Job
’s camels (
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)
) we do not read of them
for
some
fifteen hundred years, when
God
sent them to punish
Judah
(
2 Kings 24:2
2
And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servants the prophets. (2 Kings 24:2)
). Then, however,
they
cannot be distinguished from the
Babylonians
.
Nebuchadnezzar
king of
Babylon
was called a Chaldean (
Ezra 5:12
12
But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon. (Ezra 5:12)
), and on the taking of
Jerusalem
by Nebuchadnezzar it was the Chaldeans who destroyed the
city
(2 Kings 25); and in
2 Chronicles 36:17
17
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand. (2 Chronicles 36:17)
Nebuchadnezzar is called “the king of the Chaldees.” It is evident therefore that the Babylonians are called Chaldees; and at one
time
the Assyrians were associated
with
the Babylonians. We read “Behold the land of the Chaldeans;
this
people was not,
till
the
Assyrian
founded it for them that dwell in the
wilderness
” (
Isa. 23:13
13
Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin. (Isaiah 23:13)
). This
passage
has been variously interpreted. The meaning appears to be that it was the Chaldeans that were going to
destroy
Tyre
. They were a people
that had
not been reckoned among the nations until the Assyrians consolidated them into a nation. They had formerly dwelt in the wilderness—as when they fell upon Job’s camels (
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)
). This was the people that would
bring
Tyre to ruin. Lowth translates the verse thus: “Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was of no account; (the Assyrian founded it for the inhabitants of the
desert
; they raised the
watch
towers, they
set
up the palaces thereof): this people hath reduced her to a ruin.” Herodotus says “the Assyrians built the towers and temples of Babylon” (
Isa. 48:14,20
14
All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The Lord hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans. (Isaiah 48:14)
20
Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob. (Isaiah 48:20)
;
Jer. 21:4, 9-10
4
Thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city. (Jeremiah 21:4)
9
He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
10
For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the Lord: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire. (Jeremiah 21:9‑10)
:
Ezek. 23:14
14
And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, (Ezekiel 23:14)
;
Dan. 5:30
30
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. (Daniel 5:30)
;
Dan. 9:1
1
In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; (Daniel 9:1)
).
It has been judged that the
Hebrew
word Kasdim, translated “Chaldeans,” is from the Assyrian word Kasadu, “to conquer,” and is applied to those who “conquered” the Chaldean plain. The earlier inhabitants had an agglutinative language, such as the descendants of
Cush
would
have
: whereas the Chaldeans spoken of in the
Old
Testament
were a
Semitic
race
, who then possessed the land. At first they were a
number
of tribes in
South
Babylonia
, but were afterward united and increased. They became merged by the mixing of races and living together, so as not to be distinguishable from the Babylonians.
Jackson’s
Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
:
gentilic of Chaldea
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