Isaiah 37:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?

Gozan - in Mesopotamia, on the Chabour (2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 18:11). Gozan is the name of the district, Chabour of the river.

Haran - more to the west. Abraham removed to it from Ur (Genesis 11:31), the Carroe of the Romans.

Rezeph - further west, in Syria.

Eden - there is an ancient village, Adna, north of Bagdad. Some think Eden to be the name of a region (of Mesopotamia or its vicinity) in which was Paradise; Paradise was not Eden itself (Genesis 2:8, 'a garden in Eden).

Telassar - now Tel-afer, west of Mosul (Layard). Tel means a hill in Arabic and Assyrian names.

Isaiah 37:12

12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?