This article is about Jazer (place name). For other homonyms, please refer to the Jazer article. It is a city in the region east of the Jordan River. It was allotted to the tribe of Gad.
Numbers 32:35Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities and folds for sheep.
Joshua 13:25and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;Joshua 13:26and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan)’s bank, to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
이후 도피성으로 레위 지파에게 배분되었다.
Joshua 21:38Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with its pasture lands: four cities in all.Joshua 21:39All these were the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites. Their lot was twelve cities.
정확한 위치는 알 수 없으나 요단 동쪽 아로엘 근처로 추정된다.
2 Samuel 24:5then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan, and around to Sidon,
Isaiah 16:8Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.Isaiah 16:9Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.
Jeremiah 48:32Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses. No one will tread with shouting. The shouting will be no shouting.