James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Gozan

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James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Gozan


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GOZAN.—One of the places to which Israelites were deported by the king of Assyria on the capture of Samaria (2Ki_17:6; 2Ki_18:11, 1Ch_5:26; mentioned also in 2Ki_19:12, Isa_37:12). Gozan was the district termed Guzanu by the Assyrians and Gauzanitis by Ptolemy, and it was situated on the Khâbûr.

L. W. King.