Place · Middle East · modern Iraq and parts of Syria, Turkey, and Iran
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a historical region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, known as the cradle of civilization and the homeland of the patriarchs before their migration to Canaan.
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Where Mesopotamia appears
5 passages across 4 books.
Passages set in Mesopotamia
- Acts 2:9 — Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
- Acts 7:2 — And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
- Deut 23:4 — Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
- Gen 24:10 — And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
- Judg 3:8 — Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.