Resen in Biblical History

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What is Resen?
RE'SEN
(bridle), a noted Assyrian city between Nineveh and Calah. Gen 10:12. Rawlinson, who places Calah at Nimrud and Nineveh immediately opposite Mosul, would locate Resen between the two, near the village of Selamiyeh, about 3 miles north of Nimrud, where are Assyrian ruins. Fergusson identifies Calah with Kalah Sherghat, and Resen with Nimrud. Some have conjectured that the four cities of Gen 10:12 were all afterward combined under the one name "Nineveh," and that "the great city" referred to this united whole. Instances of such consolidation have been numerous enough to render this theory plausible.

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