Place
Haran
The household's stalled way-station between Ur and Canaan (Gen 11:31; 12:4).
Where it is
- Region
- Upper Mesopotamia
Haran in Scripture
19 verses name it — all of them- Genesis 11:26And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
- Genesis 11:27Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
- Genesis 11:28And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
- Genesis 11:29And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
- Genesis 11:31And 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 11:32And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
- Genesis 12:4So Abram went, as Jehovah had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
- Genesis 12:5And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
- Genesis 27:43Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;
- Genesis 28:10And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.
- Genesis 29:4And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence are ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.
- Numbers 32:36and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
- 2 Kings 19:12Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar?
- 1 Chronicles 2:46And Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran begat Gazez.
- 1 Chronicles 23:9The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers’ houses of Ladan.
- Isaiah 37:12Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar?
- Ezekiel 27:23Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were thy traffickers.
- Acts 7:2And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken: The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,
- Acts 7:4Then came he out of the land of the Chaldæans, and dwelt in Haran: and from thence, when his father was dead, God removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell:
The account
The city where Terah's household settles on the way to Canaan and where Abram resumes the journey; later the home of Laban and the place Jacob flees to.