Chaldea in the Bible

Meaning: as demons, or as robbers

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Thou art the LORD, the God that hast chosen Abram, and broughtest him out of Ur in Chaldea, and called him Abraham:

Verse ConceptsPast, TheGod Renaming PeopleBringing People Out Of Other Places

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Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and settled there.

Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

And He said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess it.”


Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people which was not; Assyria appointed it for desert creatures—they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.


“For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans,
That fierce and impetuous people
Who march throughout the earth
To seize dwelling places which are not theirs.