Reference: Golan
American
A Levitical city of refuge, in the northwest portion of Bashan. It lay east or northeast of the Sea of Galilee, but its site is now lost. See GAULAN.
Easton
exile, a city of Bashan (De 4:43), one of the three cities of refuge east of Jordan, about 12 miles north-east of the Sea of Galilee (Jos 20:8). There are no further notices of it in Scripture. It became the head of the province of Gaulanitis, one of the four provinces into which Bashan was divided after the Babylonish captivity, and almost identical with the modern Jaulan, in Western Hauran, about 39 miles in length and 18 in breath.
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Fausets
A city of Bashan (De 4:43), allotted out of Manasseh to the Levites; one of the three cities of refuge E. of Jordan (Jos 20:8; 21:27). Gaulanitis the province was named from it; E. of Galilee, N. of Hieromax separating it from Gadaritis. Jordan, from the sea of Galilee to its source at Dan and Caesarea Philippi, was its western boundary. Now Jaulan, bounded on N. by Jedur (Ituraea) and on E. by Hauran. It is a well watered, grassy table land, once densely peopled, having numerous towns and villages, of which 11 are now inhabited. The western side, the supporting wall of the plateau, along the sea of Galilee, is steep and rugged. Og or his predecessors united principalities that were before distinct; after the Babylonian captivity the four provinces of Bashan became distinct; Gaulanitis, Trachonitis, Auranitis, and Batanaea.
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Hastings
One of the three cities of refuge E. of the Jordan (De 4:43; Jos 20:8), assigned to the sons of Gershon (Jos 21:27; 1Ch 6:71), in the territory belonging to the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan. Both the town, Golan, and a district, Gaulanitis, were known to Josephus (Ant. XIII. xv. 3, XVII, viii. 1). The latter is called by the Arabs Jaul
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Morish
Go'lan
Levitical city of Manasseh. in Bashan, and a city of refuge. De 4:43; Jos 20:8; 21:27; 1Ch 6:71. Identified by some with Sahem el Jaulan, 32 48' N, 35 56' E.
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Smith
Go'lan
(circle), a city of Bashan,
De 4:43
allotted out of the half tribe of Manasseh to the Levites,
and one of the three cities of refuge east of the Jordan. ch
Its very site is now unknown. It gave its name to the province of Gaulanitis. It lay east of Galilee and north of Gadaritis [GADARA], and corresponds to the modern province of Jaulan.
See Gadara