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GOZAN

(Heb. gôzān; Akk. Guzana)

A city (modern Tell Halaf) on the upper reaches of the ³abur River to which Israelites were deported following the fall of Samaria in 722/721 b.c.e. (2 Kgs. 17:6; 18:11; 1 Chr. 5:26). Traces of the deportation are found from the late 8th-7th century; persons by the names Nadbi-yahu, Neri-yahu, Palí-yahu, Halbi from Samaria, Hoshea, and Azar-yahu are attested in texts from Tell Halaf. Guzana (Bit-Baḫiani) was the capital of an Assyrian province that paid tribute to the Assyrian homeland in rye, barley, and livestock. Sennacherib’s messenger claims that Gozan was recently conquered by the Assyrians (2 Kgs. 19:12 = Isa. 37:12).

Bibliography. B. Becking, The Fall of Samaria. SHANE 2 (Leiden, 1992), 64-69.

Bob Becking






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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