Bible Location
Meaning: taking away; heaping up · 2 cross references · Modern-day map available
Telassar was a Mesopotamian region or settlement invoked in the Assyrian taunt against Judah. It is important because it belongs to the list of places already subdued by empire. First appears in 2 Kgs 19:12.1
AI summary: Telassar matters because the Assyrian challenge gains force by naming conquered places. Its mention helps frame Jerusalem as one more target in a larger pattern of imperial domination. The cross references present Telassar as an eastern district remembered through Assyrian conquest rhetoric.1
Or Thelasar, (Isa. 37:12; 2 Kings 19:12), a province in the south-east of Assyria, probably in Babylonia. Some have identified it with Tel Afer, a place in Mesopotamia, some 30 miles from Sinjar. 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.