Chaldea

“During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.”

“And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.”

“The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.””

“Look at the land of the Chaldeans— a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.”

“For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans— that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.”