Busaira بلدة بصيرا Bozrah |
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— Town — | |
The ruins of Bozrah, the capital of Edom | |
Coordinates: 30°42′50″N 35°39′29″E / 30.71389°N 35.65806°E | |
Country | Jordan |
Province | Tafilah Governorate |
Founded | 1100 B.C. |
Government | |
- Type | Municipality |
- Mayor | Mamduh Refoo |
Time zone | GMT +2 |
- Summer (DST) | +3 (UTC) |
Area code(s) | +(962)3 |
- For the town in Syria, see Bosra. For the town in Connecticut, see Bozrah, Connecticut.
Botsra, Botzrah, Bozrah (Arabic: بصيرا,Hebrew: בצרה) is an ancient biblical city in southern modern-day Jordan, now Bouseira 20 Km to the south of Tafilah,between Tafilah (Tophel) and Shoubak.
History[]
Bozrah was the capital city of Edom. According to the Old Testament, the city was the homeland of Jacob's twin brother, Esau. Bozrah means "sheepfold" and was a pastoral city in Edom southeast of the Dead Sea.
- "And these were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before the reigning of a king over the sons of Israel...And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah, from Bozrah, reigned in his place". (Gen 36:31-33)
The prophets Amos and Isaiah predicted Bozrah's destruction.
- "But I will send a fire against Teman, and it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah". (Amos 1:12)
According to Isaiah 63:1-6, the Lord will come from Edom (modern-day Jordan) and Bozrah on the day of vengeance and the year of redemption (cf. Revelation 19:13).
According to one Christian interpretation of Micah 2:12-13, Bozrah, (or a place the Bible cryptically refers to as Bozrah), will also be the scene of a magnificent "break-out" of God's covenant people. According to this interpretation the deliverance will come at an Edomite controlled place of exile and incarceration in the End times. This epic event referred to in Micah 2:12-13 has been referred to by Dr G Finley as "the Bozrah deliverance". Bozrah is in the Hebrew, but most translators render it as "fold" - sheep in the fold. This "break-out" could be tied to Zechariah 14:1-5, when Yahweh fights against the nations, stands on the Mount of Olives (north of Israel), and splits the Mount in two as a valley, so that the remnant of Israel trapped in Jerusalem can escape those who would kill them. If so, Micah 2:12-13 would not relate to the locale of Bozrah.
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