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Golan

Hebrew: גּוֹלָן

This is the name of a city of Bashan (Deuteronomy 4:43), one of the 3 cities of refuge east of Jordan, about 12 miles northeast of the Sea of Galilee (Joshua 20:8).

There are no further notices of it in Scripture. It became the head of the province of Gaulanitis, one of the 4 provinces into which Bashan was divided after the Babylonian captivity, and almost identical with the modern Jaulan, in Western Hauran, about 39 miles in length and 18 wide.

More information

• What is a city of refuge? and how many were there? Are they a “Sanctuary City”?
• What is Bashan?
• What is the Jordan?
• What is the Sea of Galilee? and what is its significance in the Bible?
• Gaulanitis
• What are the CITIES OF THE BIBLE? Names, descriptions, locations and types