Place
Habor
river/region in Assyria
River in Assyria, identified with the Khabur, where the Assyrians settled deported Israelites after the fall of Samaria.
Who or what is this?
A river in , mentioned in 2 Kings 17 and 2 Kings 18 as one of the places to which the king transported the population of the northern kingdom after the fall of . The text groups Habor with and the cities of the as settlement zones for the exiled . Habor is generally identified with the Khabur River in modern northwestern , a major tributary of . It is also listed alongside in 1 Chronicles 5 in the account of the Transjordanian tribes taken captive by Assyria.
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Modern location: Khabur River. Coordinates from OpenBible.info.
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