Thematic Bible: Jazer


Thematic Bible



Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the sons of Ammon, as far as Aroer which is before Rabbah;

Now the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had an exceedingly large number of livestock. So when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that it was indeed a place suitable for livestock,

Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo and Beon,

and Atroth-shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah,

Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.


Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with its pasture lands; four cities in all.


“More than the weeping for Jazer
I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah!
Your tendrils stretched across the sea,
They reached to the sea of Jazer;
Upon your summer fruits and your grape harvest
The destroyer has fallen.