Southern Mesopotamia (southern Iraq) · Old Testament · 21 verses
Chaldea was the region of southern Mesopotamia near the head of the Persian Gulf, home of the Chaldean people. Its name later stood for the Babylonian Empire as a whole. The name appears in Genesis, 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles and 4 more in the King James text.
About Chaldea
Chaldea was the region of southern Mesopotamia near the head of the Persian Gulf, home of the Chaldean people. Its name later stood for the Babylonian Empire as a whole.
Its place in the story
Abraham came out of Ur of the Chaldees at God's call to journey toward the promised land. The Chaldeans rose to rule the neo-Babylonian Empire that took Judah into exile. Daniel served among the wise men and rulers of the Chaldeans.
Chaldea in Scripture (KJV)
“And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.”
“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.”
“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.”
“And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.”
“And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.”
Chaldea was the region of southern Mesopotamia near the head of the Persian Gulf, home of the Chaldean people. Its name later stood for the Babylonian Empire as a whole. The name appears in Genesis, 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles and 4 more in the King James text.
What happened at Chaldea?
Abraham came out of Ur of the Chaldees at God's call to journey toward the promised land. The Chaldeans rose to rule the neo-Babylonian Empire that took Judah into exile. Daniel served among the wise men and rulers of the Chaldeans.