Category:Jaazer

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Jaazer - He (God) helps, a city of the Amorites on the east of Jordan, and assigned, with neighboring places in Gilead, to Gad (Numbers 32:1, Numbers 32:35; Joshua 13:25). It was allotted to the Merarite Levites (Joshua 21:39). In David's time it was occupied by the Hebronites, i.e., the descendants of Kohath (1 Chronicles 26:31). It is mentioned in the "burdens" proclaimed over Moab (Isaiah 16:8, Isaiah 16:9; 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."