Place

Ur

Abraham's Mesopotamian origin — 'Ur of the Chaldees,' the city he is called out of.

Where it is

Region: Southern Mesopotamia

Ur in Scripture

5 verses name it — all of them

Genesis 11:28And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
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 15:7And he said unto him, I am Jehovah that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
1 Chronicles 11:35Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
Nehemiah 9:7Thou art Jehovah the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham,

The account

The Chaldean city from which God calls Abram (Gen 11:31; 12:1) — the starting point of the journey of faith toward the land of promise.

Where this leads

from Ur

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