Aram of the two rivers, is Mesopotamia (as it is rendered in Ge 24:10), the country enclosed between the Tigris on the east and the Euphrates on the west (Ps 60:1, title); called also the "field of Aram" (Ho 12:12, R.V.) i.e., the open country of Aram; in the Authorized Version, "country of Syria." Padan-aram (q.v.) was a portion of this country.
Then the servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and set out with a variety of good things of his master's in his hand; and he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
O God, You have rejected us You have broken us; You have been angry; O, restore us.
Now Jacob fled to the land of Aram, And Israel worked for a wife, And for a wife he kept sheep.
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