Bible Location
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Jahzah was the place where Israel defeated Sihon king of the Amorites and later a town in the transjordanian inheritance. It is important because it joins conquest memory with settled possession. First appears in 1 Chr 6:78.1
AI summary: Jahzah matters because a battlefield becomes a remembered town. The defeat of Sihon there is one of the decisive eastern victories before Israel crosses the Jordan, and later references preserve the place within the geography of possession. The cross references present Jahzah as a transjordanian site of conquest, transfer, and memory.1
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.