Jazer

Jazer was a town east of the Jordan, in good grazing country. When Israel came near the end of the wilderness years, Moses sent men to spy it out, and Israel took its villages. Reuben and Gad saw that the land of Jazer and Gilead was “a place for cattle” and asked to settle there; Gad later rebuilt the town. Centuries afterward Jeremiah mourned for the nearby vineyards of Moab, saying he would weep “with the weeping of Jazer.” The place carries a lesson about what people want from the land they live on. Numbers 32 tells the request, and Jeremiah 48 gives the lament.

5 verses

Numbers

Numbers 21:32

And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.

Numbers 32:1

Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;

Numbers 32:3

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

Numbers 32:35

And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,

Jeremiah

Jeremiah 48:32

O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.

From Smith's Bible Dictionary

William Smith, 1884

(Jehovah helps). [JAAZER, OR JAZER]