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2 Kings 19:12

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?

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Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Haran - Harran, the Carrhae of the Greeks and Romans Gen 11:31, was among the earliest conquests of the Assyrians; being subject to them from the 12th century. Its conquest would have naturally…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

2 Kings 19:8-19

Rabshakeh, having delivered his message and received no answer (whether he took this silence for a consent or a slight does not appear), left his army before Jerusalem, under the command of the other…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

as Gozan The R.V. omits the italic -as" both here and in the parallel place in Isaiah. On Gozansee above 2Ki 17:6 note.

and Haran The LXX. gives for this place Χαῤῥὰν, as in Gen 27:43, thus…