Albert Barnes Commentary


Albert Barnes Commentary
"Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar?" — 2 Kings 19:12 (ASV)
Haran - Harran, the Carrhae of the Greeks and Romans (Genesis 11:31), was among the earliest conquests of the Assyrians. It was subject to them from the 12th century. Its conquest would have naturally followed that of Gozan (Gauzanitis, 2 Kings 17:6), which lay between it and Assyria proper.
Rezeph - This is probably the Rozappa of the Assyrian inscriptions, a city in the neighborhood of Haran.
The children of Eden - Or, “the Beni-Eden,” who appear from the Assyrian inscriptions to have inhabited the country on the east bank of the Euphrates, near the modern Balis. Here they had a city called Beth-Adina, which was taken by the Assyrians around 880 B.C. This is probably the “Eden” of the marginal reference.
Thelasar - Also known as Telassar, this was probably a city on the Euphrates near Beth-Adina, named after the god Asshur. The name would signify “the Hill of Asshur.”