Dict: easton - Jaazer

easton:

Jaazer @ he (God) helps, a city of the Amorites on the east of Jordan, and assigned, with neighbouring places in Gilead, to Gad kjv@Numbers:32:1-35; kjv@Joshua:13:25). It was allotted to the Merarite Levites (21:39). In David's time it was occupied by the Hebronites, i.e., the descendants of Kohath ( kjv@1Chronicles:26:31). It is mentioned in the "burdens" proclaimed over Moab kjv@Isaiah:16:8-9; kjv@Jeremiah:48:32). Its site is marked by the modern ruin called Sar or Seir, about 10 miles west of Amman, and 12 from Heshbon. "The vineyards that once covered the hill-sides are gone; and the wild Bedawin from the eastern desert make cultivation of any kind impossible."