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on the river Habor (called in the Old Testament the “river of Gozan”; cf. RSV, NJV 1 Chr. 5:26; “river Gozan,” following MT). The Assyrian king Tiglathpileser III deported the Reubenites, Gadites, and the Transjordanian portion of Manasseh to this region (1 Chr. 5:26). With the fall of Samaria, Shalmaneser V or Sargon exiled some of the northern populace here as well (2 Kgs. 17:6; 18:11). Later Sennacherib boasted to King Hezekiah of the Assyrians’ earlier conquests in Gozan (19:12 par.
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