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 Telassar?
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Interpretation
This verse speaks in the wider setting of holiness and judgment as Isaiah unfolds its message.
Glossary
- Eden Place
- Biblical region. Modern identification: Til Barsip.
- Gozan Place
- A region in Central Asia to which the Israelites were carried away captive ( 2 Kings 17:6 ; 1 Chr. 5:26 ; 2 Kings 19:12 ; Isa. 37:12 ). Modern identification: Tell Halaf.
- Haran Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Harran.
- Rezeph Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Resafa.
- Telassar Place
- Or Thelasar, ( Isa. 37:12 ; 2 Kings 19:12 ), a province in the south-east of Assyria, probably in Babylonia. Some have identified it with Tel Afer, a place in Mesopotamia, some 30 miles from Sinjar. Modern identification: Til Barsip.