Joshua 24:2 References

2 Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'From ancient times your fathers lived beyond the River, namely, aTerah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods.

a Genesis 11:27-32


Genesis 11

27 Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran; and aHaran became the father of bLot.
28 Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in aUr of the Chaldeans.
29 Abram and aNahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was bSarai; and the name of Nahor's wife was cMilcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.
30 aSarai was barren; she had no child.
31 Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went out together from aUr of the Chaldeans in order to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and settled there.
32 The days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.