Chebar in Easton's Bible Dictionary
length, a river in the "land of the Chaldeans" (Ezek. 1:3),
on
the banks of which were located some of the Jews of
the
Captivity (Ezek. 1:1; 3:15, 23; 10:15, 20, 22). It has
been
supposed to be identical with the river Habor, the
Chaboras, or
modern Khabour, which falls into the Euphrates at
Circesium. To
the banks of this river some of the Israelites were
removed by
the Assyrians (2 Kings 17:6). An opinion that has much
to
support it is that the "Chebar" was the royal canal of
Nebuchadnezzar, the Nahr Malcha, the greatest in
Mesopotamia,
which connected the Tigris with the Euphrates, in the
excavation
of which the Jewish captives were probably employed.
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