Jazer
Jazer appears in 13 verses of the Bible, from Numbers to Jeremiah.
- City · Bible atlas
- Near Khirbet Sara, 59 km east of Jerusalem
- Likely identification
- 6 proposed sites
Key passages
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But the Israelites slaughtered them with their swords and occupied their land from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River. They went only as far as the Ammonite border because the boundary of the Ammonites was fortified.
Numbers 21:24 · Read the chapter -
Their territory included Jazer, all the towns of Gilead, and half of the land of Ammon, as far as the town of Aroer just west of Rabbah.
Joshua 13:25 · Read the chapter -
First they crossed the Jordan and camped at Aroer, south of the town in the valley, in the direction of Gad. Then they went on to Jazer,
2 Samuel 24:5 · Read the chapter -
Heshbon, and Jazer, each with its pasturelands.
1 Chronicles 6:81 · Read the chapter -
The farms of Heshbon are abandoned; the vineyards at Sibmah are deserted. The rulers of the nations have broken down Moab— that beautiful grapevine. Its tendrils spread north as far as the town of Jazer and trailed eastward into the wilderness. Its shoots reached so far west that they crossed over the Dead Sea.
Isaiah 16:8 · Read the chapter -
“You people of Sibmah, rich in vineyards, I will weep for you even more than I did for Jazer. Your spreading vines once reached as far as the Dead Sea, but the destroyer has stripped you bare! He has harvested your grapes and summer fruits.
Jeremiah 48:32 · Read the chapter
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