Bible Reference Plotted on Map of Modern Day Iraq

Introductory Comments: Tigris & Euphrates Rivers

Possible Garden of Eden Locations (Genesis 2:14)

Plain of Shinar (Tower of Babel) (Genesis 11:2)

Ur of the Chaldees (Genesis 11:28)

From Ur to Canaan via Haran in the fertile crescent (Genesis 11:31)

Assyria (II Kings 15:19)

Babylon (Empire) (II Kings 20:12)

Medo-Persia (Daniel 5:28)

Ninevah (Jonah 1:2)

Halah (Israel's Captivity) (II Kings 17:6)

Babylon (Capital city) (II Kings 24:15)

Shushan (Susa) (Nehemiah 1:1; Esther 1:2)