GOZAN . One of the places to which Israelites were deported by the king of Assyria on the capture of Samaria ( 2 Kings 17:6; 2Ki 18:11 , 1 Chronicles 5:26; mentioned also in 2 Kings 19:12 , Isaiah 37:12 ). Gozan was the district termed Guzanu by the Assyrians and Gauzanitis by Ptolemy, and it was situated on the Khâbûr.
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