Calah in Biblical History

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Who is Calah?
CA'LAH
(old age), one of the oldest of Assyrian towns; founded by Nimrod, Gen 10:11, and probably for a time the capital of the Assyrian kingdom. Layard, Porter, and Kalisch locate it at ?Kileh-Shergbut?, on the Tigris, 40 miles below Nimroud, where there is a vast ruin 3 miles in circuit. The Rawlinsons, Geo. Smith, and others, place it at Nimroud, where are ruins covering about 1000 acres. They indicate a town in the form of an irregular quadrangle, surrounded by a wall, flanked with towers, and pierced with gates. The remains of palaces, temples, and a famous tower or pyramid form a mound of ruins, 600 yards long, with a cone 140 feet high. See Assyria and Armenia. CAL'AMUS Song of Solomon 4:14; Eze 27:19, or SWEET CALAMUS, Ex 30:23, or SWEET CANE, Isa 43:24; Jer 6:20, All probably names for the same plant. It seems to have been an aromatic reed brought ''from afar country." Lemon-grass (Andropogon) is ''a plant of remarkable fragrance and a native of Central India, where it CAL CAL is used to mix with ointments, on account of the delicacy of its odor." Calamus may have been a species of this.

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