Havilah

Havilah (also Havila or Havilah ) are several people and an area in the Old Testament.

Havilah is in the Book of Genesis (Gen 2,11 EU) first mentioned as a country in the Garden of Eden. Havilah should therefore be famous for its abundance of gold, bdellium and Karneolsteinen and from the river Pishon, one of the four rivers of Paradise, flows around. Apart from Havilah also Saba is famous in modern Yemen in the Bible as the gold country. After 25.18 the EU gene Ismailis lived from Havilah unto Shur, on the eastern border of Egypt, located to the paradise itself in Eridu. Another reference is found in 1 Sam 15.7 EU

The location of the Biblical Havilah is controversial. Flavius ​​Josephus sat Havilah equal to the Gangetic Plain in India. Venerable Bede localized Havilah also in India and led from the name of Havilah, the son of Joktan. Other identifications:

• Ethiopia (after out- of-Africa theory to 40,000 BC).
• Syria
• Arabia

On the world map by Abraham Ortelius 1601 ( Geographia sacra ) is Havilah ( Evilath ) in Arabia, between the Dead Sea and the mountains of Horeb and Sinai. Charles Gordon ( 1886) saw Havilah in the gold-rich land Godjam at Blue Nile. William Willcox (1919) localized Havilah east of the Euphrates, between Karbala and Kuf. After A Curtis (1905 ) Paradise had set itself in the Indian Ocean, Havilah survived as Australia. Manfried Dietrich sees Havilah beyond the Karun, which he identified as the biblical Pishon. The British archaeologist David Rohl, however, believed in the biblical river Pishon the Qezel Uzan, which flows from the heights to Kurdistan in the Caspian region, what would a layer of Havilah in the area of ​​present-day Iran suggest.

People

After gene 10.7 EU a son of Cush and grandson of Ham, who inherited Africa. After Gen 10,29 EU and 1 Chr 1,23 EU Havilah the son of Joktan and grandson of Eber ( location in South Arabia ).