Bible Verses About Ur

And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

(And his daughter was Sherah, who built Beth–horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen–sherah.)

And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.

The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.

Thou art the Lord the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;

And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.

And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,

And Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.

Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

And at En–rimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth,

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

The children of Dishan are these; Uz, and Aran.

And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,

Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.

And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed them, and begat Uzza, and Ahihud.

So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.

And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,

Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.

Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?

That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,

Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.

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,

And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba;

And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.

And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,

And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,

And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,

Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.