Type: place
One of the regions that the Assyrian Empire destroyed and occupied. Assyria implemented a policy of forcibly dispersing and relocating the people of the regions they occupied to other occupied territories.
It is one of the regions where the people of the Northern Kingdom of Israel were captured and dispersed after its destruction.
1 Chr 5:26So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul), king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria, and he carried them away, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they are to this day.
2 Kgs 17:6In the ninth year of Hoshea), the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria and put them in Halah, Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kgs 18:11The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria and put them in Halah, Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.