Uz in Biblical History

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Who is Uz?
UZ
(fruitful in trees). 1. A son of Aram, and grandson of Shem. Gen 10:23; 1 Chr 1:17. 2. A son of Dishan, and grandson of Seir. Gen 36:28. UZ, THE LAND OF (fertile land). Uz, or, more correctly, "Huz," was the country of Job. Job 1:1. It is mentioned in the ethnographical tables. Gen 10:23, and it was settled by a son of Aram. Comp. 1 Chr 1:17. Job was "the greatest of all the men of the East" - in Hebrew, Bene-Kedem, the people who dwelt in Arabia. Job 1:3, Job 1:15-17. Uz is grouped with Egypt, Philistia, and Moab, Jer 25:20, and with Edom. Jer Lam, 4:21. Situation. - The position of the land of Uz has been a subject of much dispute. According to Josephus, Uz was the father of the inhabitants of Damascus and Trachonitis. Many traditions put it at Orfah, on the Euphrates. See Ur. Near the Haran-gate in that city is "Job's well," which is a sacred shrine to the people because the patriarch drank of its waters. Porter found many traditions of Job in the Hauran, and numerous places named after the patriarch. The land of Uz seems most likely to have been in general that portion of Arabia Deserta east of Edom and south of Trachonitis, extending indefinitely toward the Euphrates.

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