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The Habor River city where Assyria settled the deported northern tribes of Israel
Upper MesopotamiaHistorically Verified
Identified with Tell Halaf in northeastern Syria. Max von Oppenheim's excavations from 1899 to 1929 uncovered a massive Aramean palace with stone-relief sculptures and Assyrian administrative archives.
A city on the Habor River in upper Mesopotamia that became one of the main resettlement zones for the deported northern tribes of Israel after the fall of Samaria (2 Kings 17:6; 18:11; 1 Chronicles 5:26). Sennacherib's field commander used Gozan's earlier capture as part of his terror campaign against Hezekiah, listing it among the gods who had failed to deliver their cities (2 Kings 19:12; Isaiah 37:12). The Assyrians had taken Gozan from the Aramean kingdom of Bit-Bahiani in the 9th century BCE.
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