Nahor, Son of Terah
In the account of Terah's family, mentioned in Gen.11:26-32, Nahor II is listed as the son of Terah, amongst two other brothers, Abram and Haran. His grandfather was Nahor I, son of Serug. Nahor married the daughter of his brother Haran, Milcah, his niece. They were all born and raised in the city of Ur. When Abram, had an encounter with God, this brother directed his family to leave their native land and go to the land of Canaan. Terah, their father, coordinated the gathering of his family to journey west to their destination. They followed the Euphrates River, with their herds, to the Padan-aram region. This was about halfway along the Fertile Crescent between Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean, in what is now southeastern Turkey. In this region, Nahor and his family settled except for his brother Haran, who had died sometime ago back in Ur. The city where they settled, Haran, is the place that Nahor's father eventually died.
Nahor II continued his own travels and settled in the region of Aram Naharaim where he founded the town, Nahor. Here, he had eight sons to Milcah:
- Uz, the firstborn
- Buz
- Kemuel
- Kesed
- Hazo
- Pildash
- Jidlaph
- Bethuel, father of Rebekah, the wife of Isaac
To his concubine, Reumah, Nahor had these sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maacah.
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