Haran
City in the Bible
Location: 36.86° N, 39.03° E (approximate; the location is disputed or uncertain)
Died here: Terah
Mentioned in 10 verses. Here are the first ones. The list is based on an open dataset and is not complete: not every place a person or place is mentioned is included.
Where Haran is mentioned
2 Kings 19:12
Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
Read in contextEzekiel 27:23
Haran, Canneh, and Eden traded with you, and so did the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad.
Read in contextGenesis 11:31–32
31 And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.
Read in contextGenesis 12:4–6
4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
5 And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.
Read in contextGenesis 27:43
So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.
Read in contextGenesis 28:10
Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.
Read in contextGenesis 29:4
“My brothers,” Jacob asked the shepherds, “where are you from?” “We are from Haran,” they answered.
Read in contextIsaiah 37:12
Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
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