Hazar-enan

Hazar-enan ("court of the spring") was the easternmost point on the northern frontier of the Promised Land as described to Moses on the plains of Moab. "From the sea you shall mark out your line to Mount Hor; from Mount Hor you shall mark it out to Lebo-hamath, and the boundary shall extend to Zedad. Then the boundary shall extend to Ziphron and its limit shall be at Hazar-enan; this shall be your northern boundary" (Numbers 34:7-9). Ezekiel's eschatological vision of restored Israel uses Hazar-enan again to mark the northeast corner: "And this shall be the boundary of the land: On the north side, from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, and on to Zedad... Hazar-enan, which is on the border of Hauran. The border shall run from the Sea to Hazar-enan" (Ezekiel 47:15-17, 48:1). Generally identified with Qaryatein in the Syrian desert east of Damascus, on the ancient caravan route to Palmyra.