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Place

Gozan

Mesopotamian region and river of exile

River and region in northern Mesopotamia, one of the places where the Assyrians settled the exiled people of the northern kingdom of Israel.

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A river and district in northern where the kings resettled deportees from the northern kingdom. According to 2 Kings 17, when the Assyrian king Shalmaneser captured and ended the northern kingdom of Israel, he carried the Israelites away to and placed them in , , and the cities of the — with Gozan also named in 2 Kings 19 and 1 Chronicles 5 among these places of exile. The river Gozan is generally identified with the Khabur River in what is today northeastern .

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Modern location: Tell Halaf. Coordinates from OpenBible.info.

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