Gozan
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gō´zan (גּוזן, gōzān; Γωζάν, Gōzán, Codex Vaticanus, Gōzár in 2 Kings 17:6, Chōzár in 1 Chronicles 5:26):
A place in Assyria to which Israelites were deported on the fall of Samaria (2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 18:11; 1 Chronicles 5:26). It was situated in Mesopotamia, on the river Habor (2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 18:11), the Khabur, a tributary of the Euphrates. The “river of Gozan” (1 Chronicles 5:26) is probably the upper part of the river flowing through the province of Gozan, now Kizzel-Ozan.
It is also mentioned in a letter of Sennacherib to Hezekiah (2 Kings 19:12; Isaiah 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 (âlu Guzana; âlu Nasibina). It became an Assyrian province, and rebelled in 759 BC, but was again reduced to subjection.
