The Bible, Annotated

And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

This is the first of many Old Testament passages that are secretly prophecies of the life of Jesus (I’ll be pointing out more later). Here, “the land of his nativity” is a reference to Jesus because, even though Jesus wasn’t from Ur he had a nativity (as prophecies here), which we celebrate every year at Christmas.