Gozan
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A region in Central Asia to which the Israelites were carried away captive (2 Kgs 17:6; 1 Chr 5:26; 2 Kgs 19:12; Isa 37:12). It was situated in Mesopotamia, on the river Habor (2 Kgs 17:6; 18:11), the Khabur, a tributary of the Euphrates. The “river of Gozan” (1 Chr 5:26) is probably the upper part of the river flowing through the province of Gozan, now Kizzel-Ozan.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
go'-zan (gozan; Gozan, Codex Vaticanus, Gozar in 2 Kgs 17:6, Chozar in 1 Chr 5:26): A place in Assyria to which Israelites were deported on the fall of Samaria (2 Kgs 17:6; 2 Kgs 18:11; 1 Chr 5:26). It is also mentioned in a letter of Sennacherib to Hezekiah (2 Kgs 19:12; Isa 37:12). The district is that named Guzana by the Assyrians, and Gauzanitis by Ptolemy, West of Nisibis, with which, in the Assyrian geographical list (WAI, II, 53, l. 43), it is mentioned as the name of a city (alu Guzana; alu Nasibina). It became an Assyrian province, and rebelled in 759 BC, but was again reduced to subjection.
See HABOR; HALAH.
James Orr
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