Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia, the ancient region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, where Abraham lived before being called to Canaan (Genesis 24:10; Acts 7:2) and where the Israelites were oppressed by Cushan-rishathaim.
The name Mesopotamia means “between two rivers”
PlaceOld & New Testaments5 books7 verses
Summary
A location first mentioned at Genesis 24:10; referred to as Mesopotamia (אֲרַם נַהֲרַיִם, אֲרָם) or Mesopotamia (Μεσοποταμία).
Location
- Identified as
- Aram-naharaim
- Certainty
- Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)
- Coordinates
- 36.864° N, 39.033° E
Events
Dates are approximate
- Subjugation by Cushan-rishathaimc. 1418 BC
Glossary entries
Alternative names
- ΜεσοποταμίαMesopotamia
- אֲרָםMesopotamia
- אֲרַם נַהֲרַיִםMesopotamia
Mentions
- Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor’s hometown in Aram-naharaim.
- For they did not meet you with food and water on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.
- Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served him eight years.
- The Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he became Israel’s judge and went out to war. And the LORD delivered Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram into the hand of Othniel, who prevailed against him.
- When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.
- Parthians, Medes, and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
- And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,