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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 the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia , unto the city of Nahor .

Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia , and in Judaea, and Cappadocia , in Pontus , and Asia ,

Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel , and he sold them into the hand of Chushan–rishathaim king of Mesopotamia : and the children of Israel served Chushan–rishathaim eight years.

and they sojourned heretofore in Mesopotamia , because they were not minded to follow the gods of their fathers, which were in the land of the Chaldeans.

And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel , and went out to war: and the Lord delivered Chushan–rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushan–rishathaim.

Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt ; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia , to curse thee.

And they departed from the way of their parents, and worshipped the God of heaven, the God whom they knew: and they cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia , and sojourned there many days.

And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David , Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia , and out of Syria –maacah, and out of Zobah .

And he went over Euphrates , and went through Mesopotamia , and brake down all the high cities that were upon the river Arbonai, until you come to the sea.

Against Egypt , against the army of Pharaoh–neco king of Egypt , which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish , which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah .

THERE lived a man in Babylon , and his name was Joakim:

And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates , all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.

The word that the Lord spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt .

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura , in the province of Babylon .

And they entered by the narrow passages of the river Euphrates .

In his days Pharaoh–neco king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates : and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo , when he had seen him.

And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:

And you, Asia , that are partaker in the beauty of Babylon , and in the glory of her person:

IN the twelfth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, who reigned over the Assyrians in Nineveh , the great city; in the days of Arphaxad , who reigned over the Medes in Ecbatana ,

until you come above Tanis and Memphis , and to all that lived in Egypt , until you come to the borders of Ethiopia .

The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt , which dwell at Migdol , and at Tahpanhes , and at Memphis , and in the country of Pathros , saying,

And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt : get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.