Habor: The united stream, or, according to others, with beautiful banks, the
name of a river in Assyria, and also of the district through which it
flowed
(1 Chronicles 5:26) There is a river called Khabur which rises in the
central highlands of Kurdistan, and flows south-west till it falls
into the Tigris, about 70 miles above Mosul. This was not, however,
the Habor of Scripture. There is another river of the same name (the
Chaboras) which, after a course of about 200 miles, flows into the
Euphrates at Karkesia, the ancient Circesium. This was, there can be
little doubt, the ancient Habor.
