This is the spot that Terah and his son A bramham dwellt on the way from Ur of the Chaldees to Canaan in Genesis 11v31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.
The Balikh River is a perennial river that originates in the spring of Ain al-Arous near Tell Abyad in the Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests ecoregion. It flows due south and joins the Euphrates at the modern city of Raqqa.Wikipedia
Other name(s):Arabic: البليخ Country:Syria Basin area:Turkey
Stephen’s speech to the Sanhedrin
7 Then the high priest asked Stephen, ‘Are these charges true?’
2 To this he replied: ‘Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran. 3 “Leave your country and your people,” God said, “and go to the land I will show you.”[a]
4 ‘So he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Harran. After the death of his father, God sent him to this land where you are now living... Acts 7
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