Choaspes River (Iran)
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The Choaspes (also called Eulæus; Hebrew: Ulai (אולי, Daniel, 8:2); modern Karkheh or Karkhen) is a river of ancient Susiana (now in Khuzestan, Iran) that rises in the Zagros mountains, and passes north of Susa, eventually falling into the Tigris just below its confluence with the Euphrates very near to the modern Iran-Iraq border. Its peculiarly sweet water was sacred to the use of the Persian kings. The river is mentioned in the Bible, Book of Daniel 8:2,16,[1] [2] and should not be confused with the river of the same name which flows into the Indus.
[edit] Notes
- ^ "In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first. And I saw in the vision; now it was so, that when I saw, I was in Shushan the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai." (Daniel, 8:2)
- ^ "And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision." (Daniel, 8:16)
[edit] External links
- Choaspes (Karkheh), Photographs of the river: Livius.
- Karkheh river marshes, BirdLife IBA Factsheet, BirdLife International.
- William Hazlitt, Classical Gazetteer (1851), Choaspes.
