Jazer (or Jaazer) was a city east of the Jordan River, in or near Gilead,[1] inhabited by the Amorites.
It was taken by a special expedition sent by Moses to conquer it towards the end of the Israelites' Exodus journey from Egypt.
[3] As an important city it gave its name to the whole of the surrounding territory[4]—a "Sea of Jazer" is mentioned in Jeremiah xlviii.
[5] Jazer is stated to have been a fertile land fit for the raising of cattle[6] and a place having many vineyards.
It is identified by some scholars[14] with the modern Khirbet es-Sar on the road from Iraq al-Amir to Al-Salt; but this identification has been rejected by Cheyne.