Chaldees

And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the chaldees.

And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

And the LORD sent against him bands of the chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.

And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.

And the army of the chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.

And all the army of the chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.

And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.

But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.

And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the chaldees.

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Therefore he brought upon them the king of the chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.

Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.