Hazor

Hazor (Hebrew: חצור‎) is the name of several places in the biblical and modern Israel:

Biblical locations:

• Tel Hazor, site of the ancient city of Hazor in the Upper Galilee, among the most important Caananite towns, and the largest ancient ruin in modern Israel. A UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  • In the eleventh century BCE, Hazor (now Tel Hazor) was ruled by Egypt as the holy city for Hathor. The Old Testament states it was destroyed by Joshua (Joshua 11:13, 21)
• Hazor, A town in the southern Negev, between Kadesh and Ithan, mentioned in a geographic list.^[1] The Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209 conflates Hazor and Ithnan into a single word in the list, while Codex Alexandrinus completely omits Ithnan from it. Suspected by some archaeologists to be identical with modern El-Jebariyeh.
• Hazor, one of the towns inhabited by the descendants of the Tribe of Benjamin, after their return from Babylonian Captivity.^[2] The town, described by the Book of Nehemiah as being located between Ananiah and Ramah, is suspected by some archaeologists to be identical with modern Khirbet Hazzur.
• Hazor, one of the towns devastated by Nabu-Kudurri-User, described by the Book of Jeremiah as being in the vicinity of Kedar.^[3] The text refers to kingdoms of Hazor, which suggests the possibility that this Hazor was the name of a region in the Arab desert (the land east of the Jordan River).^[4]
• Kerioth-Hezron, a town in the south of the land occupied by the Tribe of Judah, Kerioth;^[5] the Revised Standard Version renders it as Hazor-Hadattah. Archaeologists suspect the town to be identical to modern Khirbet el-Qaryatein.

Modern-day Israel:

• Hatzor HaGlilit, a town in northern Israel
• Hatzor, a kibbutz in central Israel, also called Hatzor Ashdod after the nearby city.
• Hatzor Airbase, an Israeli Air Force base located next to the kibbutz

References

1. Joshua 15:23
2. Nehemiah 11:33
3. Jeremiah 49:28-33
4. Jewish Encyclopedia
5. Joshua 15:25