Tell Halaf
Tell Halaf is an archaeological site in the
Al Hasakah governorate of northeastern
Syria, near the
Turkish border, just opposite
Ceylanpınar. It was the first find of a
Neolithic culture, subsequently dubbed the Halafian culture, characterized by glazed pottery painted with geometric and animal designs. The site dates to the 6th millennium BCE and was later the location of the
Aramaean city-state of Guzana or Gozan.
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gozar
v.
enjoy, joy; take; earn
Gozan
fleece; pasture; who nourisheth the body
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869) , by Roswell D. Hitchcock.
About
Gozan
seems in the Authorized Version of (1 Chronicles 5:26) to be the name of a river, but in (2 Kings 17:6) and 2Kin 18:11 It is evidently applied not to a river but a country. Gozan was the tract to which the Israelites were carried away captive by Pul, Tiglathpileser and Shalmaneser, or possibly Sargon. It is probably identical with the Gauzanitis of Ptolemy, and I may be regarded as represented by the Mygdonia of other writers. It was the tract watered by the Habor, the modern Khabour, the great Mesopotamian affluent of the Euphrates.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) , by William Smith.
About
Gozan
a region in Central Asia to which the Israelites were carried away captive (2 Kings 17:6; 1 Chr. 5:26; 2 Kings 19:12; Isa. 37:12). It was situated in Mesopotamia, on the river Habor (2 Kings 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.