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Ur of the Chaldees

Southern Mesopotamia · Old Testament · 4 verses

Ur was an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia and the home of Abram (Abraham) before God called him. The Bible names it as Ur of the Chaldees. The name appears in Genesis, Nehemiah in the King James text.

About Ur of the Chaldees

Ur was an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia and the home of Abram (Abraham) before God called him. The Bible names it as Ur of the Chaldees.

Its place in the story

Ur is the place from which Abram set out when God called him to leave his country and go to a land he would be shown. It marks the starting point of the journey of the man who would become father of the covenant people.

Ur of the Chaldees in Scripture (KJV)

“And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.”

Genesis 11:28 (KJV)

“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.”

Genesis 11:31 (KJV)

“And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.”

Genesis 15:7 (KJV)

“Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;”

Nehemiah 9:7 (KJV)

Where it leads

God's call of Abram out of Ur begins the covenant line through which, the New Testament teaches, the promised blessing to all nations comes in Jesus Christ.

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