resen Summary and Overview

head of the stream; bridle, one of Nimrod's cities (Gen. 10:12), "between Nineveh and Calah." It has been supposed that the four cities named in this verse were afterwards combined into one under the name of Nineveh (q.v.). Resen was on the east side of the Tigris. It is probably identified with the mound of ruins called Karamless.

(bridle), #Ge 10:12| one of the cities built by Asshur, "between Nineveh and Calah." Assyrian remains of some considerable extent are found near the modern village of Selamiyeh, and it is perhaps the most probable conjecture that these represent Resen.

RE'SEN (bridle), a noted Assyrian city between Nineveh and Calah. Gen 10:12. Rawlinson, who places Calah at Nimrud and Nineveh immediately opposite Mosul, would locate Resen between the two, near the village of Selamiyeh, about 3 miles north of Nimrud, where are Assyrian ruins. Fergusson identifies Calah with Kalah Sherghat, and Resen with Nimrud. Some have conjectured that the four cities of Gen 10:12 were all afterward combined under the one name "Nineveh," and that "the great city" referred to this united whole. Instances of such consolidation have been numerous enough to render this theory plausible.

The Larissa of Xenophon (Ahab. 3:4, section 7), now Nimrud. (See ASSYRIA; NINEVEH.) Calah is probably Kileh Sherghat, 55 miles S. of Mosul, on the right bank of the Tigris. Resen was situated nine geographical miles N. of it, and four S. of Koyunjik or Nineveh. Septuagint read Dasen. G. Rawlinson however identifies Asshur with Kileh. Sherghat, and Caleb or Halah with Nimrud. The name Calah may have been transferred from Asshur, Kileh Sherghat, to Nimrud, when the seat of empire was transferred to this latter place. The targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem explain Resen as Tel-assar "the mound of Asshur."