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Jazer (or Jaazer) was a city east of the Jordan River, in or near Gilead,^[1] inhabited by the Amorites. It was taken by a special expedition sent by Moses to conquer it towards the end of the Israelites' Exodus journey from Egypt.^[2] From the Septuagint (which reads Ἰαζήρ for עז in Numbers xxi. 24) it appears that Jazer was on the border of Ammon.^[3] As an important city it gave its name to the whole of the surrounding territory ^[4] - a "Sea of Jazer" is mentioned in Jeremiah xlviii. 32.^[5]

Jazer is stated to have been a fertile land fit for the raising of cattle ^[6] and a place having many vineyards.^[7] It was occupied by the children of Gad,^[8] by which tribe it was allotted as a Levitical city to the Merarite Levites.^[9] In the time of David it seems to have been occupied by the Hebronites, who were descendants of Kohath.^[10] It was chosen as one of the stations by David's officers who were sent to number the children of Israel.^[11]

According to Josephus,^[12] Jazer was captured and burned by Judas Maccabeus. The site of Jazer was defined by Eusebius and Jerome^[13] as being 8 or 10 Roman miles west of Philadelphia, and 15 miles north of Heshbon, and as the source of a large river falling into the Jordan. It is identified by some scholars ^[14] with the modern Khurbat Ṣar on the road from Iraq al-Amir to Al-Salt; but this identification has been rejected by Cheyne.^[15]

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1. ^Num. xxxii. 1, 3; I Chron. l.c.
2. ^Numbers xxi. 32
3. ^Numbers 21 in Brenton Septuagint Translation
4. ^Numbers 32:1
5. ^But comp. the Septuagint rendering πολις Ιαζήρ, probably due to reading (Hebrew in JE) instead of (Hebrew in JE)
6. ^Numbers 32:1
7. ^Isaiah xvi. 8, 9; Jeremiah xlviii. 32
8. ^Josh. xiii. 25; I Chron. xxvi. 31
9. ^Josh. xxi. 39; I Chron. vi. 66 [A. V. 81]
10. ^I Chron. xxvi. 31
11. ^II Sam. xxiv. 5
12. ^"Ant." xii. 8, § 1
13. ^"Onomasticon," s.v. "Azor"
14. ^e.g., S. Merrill; see Hastings, "Dict. Bible," s.v.
15. ^Cheyne and Black, "Encyc. Bibl." s.v.

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