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title: Iraq
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blurb: Ancient Mesopotamia - between the Tigris and Euphrates.
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region: Mesopotamia & Persia
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scripture: "By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept…" - Psalm 137:1
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history: The garden was planted eastward in Eden. Abraham was called out of Ur of the Chaldees. Nineveh heard Jonah preach and repented; Babylon carried Judah into exile and Daniel into a lions' den. Nearly every book of the Bible touches this soil.
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site: Ur | Genesis 11:31 - Ur of the Chaldees | On the scouting list | future
about: The city Abraham was called out of, on the old course of the Euphrates near Nasiriyah. Its ziggurat still stands, restored, over the mud-brick streets where a family packed up and left for a land they had not seen.
site: Nineveh | Jonah 3 - forty days, and the city repented | On the scouting list | future
about: The Assyrian capital, across the Tigris from modern Mosul. Jonah was sent here and did not want to go; the city he preached to turned, and was destroyed a century and a half later anyway. Its walls and gates have been dug, damaged and dug again.
site: Babylon | Psalm 137:1 - by the rivers of Babylon | On the scouting list | future
about: Where Judah was carried into exile and sat down and wept, where Daniel served four kings, and where the writing appeared on the wall. The ruins lie near Hillah, the Ishtar Gate's processional way among them.