Dict: smith - GOZAN

smith:

GOZAN - G>@ - seems in the Authorized Version of ( kjv@1Chronicles:5:26) to be the name of a river, but in ( kjv@2Kings:17:6) and 2Kin 18:11 It is evidently applied not to a river but a country. Gozan was the tract to which the Israelites were carried away captive by Pul, Tiglathpileser and Shalmaneser, or possibly Sargon. It is probably identical with the Gauzanitis of Ptolemy, and I may be regarded as represented by the Mygdonia of other writers. It was the tract watered by the Habor, the modern Khabour , the great Mesopotamian affluent of the Euphrates.