Jazer

An Amorite stronghold east of the Jordan captured by Israel during the wilderness conquest (Numbers 21:32). Its surrounding pastureland was so good that the tribes of Reuben and Gad asked Moses for it as their inheritance — they had massive flocks and Jazer was prime grazing country (Numbers 32:1-5). It was eventually allotted to Gad and designated a Levitical city. Centuries later, when Isaiah and Jeremiah pronounced judgment on Moab, they wept for the vineyards of Jazer (Isaiah 16:8-9; Jeremiah 48:32) — the prophets specifically mourning the destruction of its lush vineyards as a marker of Moab's complete collapse.