Terach took Avram his son, Lot the son of Charan, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Avram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Kasdim, to go into the land of Kena`an. They came to Charan and lived there.
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Ashur took Shomron, and carried Yisra'el away to Ashur, and placed them in Chalach, and on the Chavor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Madai.
Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Charan, and Retzef, and the children of `Eden that were in Telassar?
Beware lest Chizkiyahu persuade you, saying, *The LORD will deliver us.* Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Ashur?
Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Yerushalayim out of my hand?'*
You were in `Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: odem, pitdah, yahalom, tarshish, shoham, yashefay, sappir, nofek, and bareket. Gold work of timbrels and of pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared.
I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from the house of `Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir,* says the LORD.