Zair

Zair appears once in Scripture as the location of King Joram of Judah's narrow military escape during the Edomite revolt: "And Jehoram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents. Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day" (2 Kings 8:21-22). King Joram (Jehoram) broke through the Edomite encirclement by night attack, but failed to subdue the revolt — Edom's independence from Judah lasted "unto this day." The site of Zair is unidentified but lay somewhere in northwestern Edom on the Judean-Edomite frontier.