Hazar-enan marks a corner on a map of the promised land. When the Lord described Israel’s borders to Moses, the northern line was to end at “Hazarenan,” and the eastern line was to start from there. Centuries later Ezekiel’s vision of the restored land names it again, as the border of Damascus and Hamath on the north. Nothing happens in the town itself; it simply serves as a fixed point to measure from. It is a small reminder that the land was described with care, down to its edges. Numbers 34 gives the first and fullest account of these boundaries.
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And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your north border.
And ye shall point out your east border from Hazarenan to Shepham:
And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.
Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.
Matthew George Easton, 1897
Village of fountains, a place on the north-east frontier of Palestine (Num. 34:9, 10). Some have identified it with Ayan ed-Dara in the heart of the central chain of Anti-Libanus. More probably, however, it has been identified with Kuryetein, about 60 miles east-north-east of Damascus. (Comp. Ezek. 47:17; 48:1.)