Teks -- Isaiah 37:12 (NET)

37:12 Were the nations whom my predecessors destroyed– the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar– rescued by their gods?

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JFB: Isa 37:12 - Gozan

In Mesopotamia, on the Chabour (2Ki 17:6; 2Ki 18:11). Gozan is the name of the district, Chabour of the river.

JFB: Isa 37:12 - Haran

More to the west. Abraham removed to it from Ur (Gen 11:31); the Carroe of the Romans.

JFB: Isa 37:12 - Rezeph

Farther west, in Syria.

JFB: Isa 37:12 - Eden

There is an ancient village, Adna, north of Baghdad. Some think Eden to be the name of a region (of Mesopotamia or its vicinity) in which was Paradise; Paradise was not Eden itself (Gen 2:8). "A garden in Eden."

JFB: Isa 37:12 - Telassar

Now Tel-afer, west of Mosul [LAYARD]. Tel means a "hill" in Arabic and Assyrian names.

Clarke: Isa 37:12 - As Gozan, and Haran

As Gozan, and Haran - חרן Charan : but הרן Haran is the reading of four of Kennicott’ s MSS. and one of De Rossi’ s.

Calvin: Isa 37:12 - Gozan

12.Gozan This place is mentioned in 2Kg 17:6. We may infer that it was a town in Media, though some think that it was situated elsewhere; but it is enough that, with regard to Jerusalem, it lay in an easterly direction. Haran is often mentioned in Scripture. Pliny places this town in Arabia; but it is more generally believed to have been in Mesopotamia, and this is confirmed by the journeyings of Abraham, who came to it along with his father, after having left his native country Chaldaea. (Act 7:24; Gen 11:31.) It is called Charrae, in the plural number, by heathen historians, who also mention that Crassus and his son were killed there.

TSK: Isa 37:12 - the gods // Gozan // Haran // Eden // Telassar

the gods : Isa 36:20, Isa 46:5-7

Gozan : 2Ki 17:6, 2Ki 18:11, 2Ki 19:12

Haran : Haran, the Carrhe of the Greeks and Romans, is situated in the north-west part of Mesopotamia, between the Euphrates and the river Chebar; about 110 miles west of Nisibis, 90 east of Bir, 100 south of Diarbekir, and 170 north of Palmyra. Gen 11:31, Gen 12:14, Gen 28:10, Gen 29:4; Act 7:2

Eden : It is probable that this Eden is the country near Diarbekir, on the Tigris, called Madon, according to Asseman. Gen 2:8; Eze 27:23, Eze 28:13; Amo 1:5

Telassar : Telassar is probably the same as Ellasar, Gen 14:1, as the Jerusalem Targum reads; for both of which the Syriac has Dolassar; and perhaps, as Doederlein supposes, the same as Sharra, a city of Mesopotamia, half a mile from the Euphrates. 2Ki 19:12, Thelasar

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Gill: Isa 37:12 - Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed // as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden, which were in Telassar

Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed,.... They have not. But what then? is the God of Israel to be put upon a level with such dunghill gods? so Sennacherib reckoned him, as Rabshakeh before, in his name, Isa 36:18,

as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden, which were in Telassar. Gozan was the same, it may be, with the Gausanitis of Ptolemy ^z which he makes mention of in his description of Mesopotamia; and the rather, since Haran or Chapman was a city of Mesopotamia, Gen 11:31 called by Ptolemy by the name of Carrae ^a; and who also, in the same place, makes mention of Rezeph, under the name of Rhescipha; though he likewise speaks of another place in Palmyrene in Syria, called Rhaesapha ^b, which some think to be the place here intended. Eden was also in Mesopotamia, in the eastern part of which was the garden of Eden; and this Telassar, inhabited by the children of Eden, was a city in that country, which is by Ptolemy ^c called Thelda; though Hillerus ^d is of opinion that the city Thalatha is meant, which is placed ^e near the river Tigris, a river of paradise. A very learned ^f men is of opinion, that the Eden, Isaiah here speaks of, belongs either to Syria of Damascus, and to the Lebanon and Paneas from whence Jordan arose; or to Syro-Phoenicia, and the Mediterranean sea, which the name Thalassar shows, as if it was θαλασσα, the Syrians being used to derive not a few of their words from the Greeks: and certain it is, that there is now a village called Eden on Mount Lebanon, which Thevenot ^g mentions; and another, near Damascus, Mr. Maundrell ^h speaks of; see Amo 1:5 and Tyre in Phoenicia is called Eden, Eze 28:13.