ACCORDING TO THE HEBREW BIBLE -- VIRTUALLY THE ONLY SOURCE OF INFORMATION ABOUT ABRAHAM -- HE CAME FROM A CITY CALLED UR, WHICH WAS HUNDREDS OF MILES FROM JERUSALEM. TODAY IT'S A REGION IN IRAQ.
Three Bible stories—in Isaiah 37:36-38, 2 Kings 19:35, and 2 Chronicles 32:21—describe how Assyrian soldiers were killed the night before their planned attack on Jerusalem. In each account, the ...