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BEYOND THE RIVER

1. The area E of the Euphrates (2 Sam. 10:16; 1 Kgs. 14:15; Isa. 7:20; 1 Chr. 19:16); also translated “beyond the Euphrates” (NRSV).

2. The area W of the Euphrates (1 Kgs. 4:24[MT 5:4]); also translated in various places as “west of the Euphrates” (NRSV, NIV), “Trans-Euphrates” (NIV), and “the province beyond the river” (NRSV). As early as the 8th century, Akk. ebir nāri (“beyond the river”) was used to refer to the Syria-Palestine region. During or after the reign of Xerxes this became a satrapy by that name.

Bibliography. M. W. Stolper, “The Governor of Babylon and Across-the-River in 486 b.c.,” JNES 48 (1989): 283-305.

3. The district of Haran from which the patriarchs came (Josh. 24:2-15). Narratively these have an eastward perspective; geographically and politically they are Mesopotamian.

R. Glenn Wooden






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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