HAUR,AN (hau'ran), (Heb. 1.7P, khav-rawn.), a province on the northeastern boundary of the Promised Land (Ezek. xlvii :16, 18).
In the passage in Ezekiel the Jordan is made the border line between Hauran, Damascus, and Gilead on the one hand, and the Land of Israel on the other. Hauran is there the whole district between Damascus and Gilead, from the lip of the Jordan Valley eastward. This practically corresponds with the province under the Turkish governor of Hauran to-day, whose seat is in el Merkez, and whose jurisdiction includes Jedfir, Jaulan, and part of the hill country south of the Jarmuk, as vvell as the region now specially called Hauran.
Little was known of Hauran previous to 1854. The works of Porter, 1855, Graham, x858, Wet stein, 186o, Burton and Drake, 1872, and Selah Merrill of the American Palestine Exploration So ciety, 1877, have thrown much light on its extent, nature, and history, but a thorough exploration of th2 country yet remains to be made. When the Israelites conquered the land, the whole of this re gion appears to have been subject to Og, the king of Bashan (Num. xxi :33-35; Dent. iii :1-5) and a large portion of it was alloted to Manasseh. The district would then include the Argob, the slope of the Hauran Mountains, where the Israelites found sixty fortified cities with walls and gates and a fertile tract. (See BASHAN.) In the Roman period the country was divided into five provinces, Iturxa, Gaulanitis, Batamea (ap plied also to the whole region), Trachonitis, and Auranitis.
The natives now say that Hauran consists of three parts, viz.: en-Nukrah, el-Leja, and el-Jebel. These are clearly defined districts.
The ruins scattered over the region are very extensive and remarkable ; those built in the cav erns are regarded by Wetstein as the most an cient, and possibly reaching back to the times of the Rephaim (Gen. xiv :5; xv :2o, and Dent. iii: 1). The villages are chiefly of stone houses, having gates and doors of large slabs of dolerite; the gateways of the larger buildings are orna mented with sculptured vines and inscriptions. The Arabs. according to Wetstein. from near Yemen settled in the Hauran at about the be ginning of the Christian era; later. a second im migration from south Arabia took place, and these controlled the country for five centuries, and they probably erected most of the stone build ings now in so good a state of preservation. A
large number of inscriptions in various characters are yet to be deciphered, which will throw much light, no doubt, upon the ancient history of this wild region. Wetstein states that the eastern section of the Lejah and the slopes of the Hauran Mountains contain at least 30o ruined cities and towns. Selab Merrill says that an important ruin is found in every half hour of travel, and that among these ruins, he has himself visited and ex amined sixty ruined churches, and eleven of thir teen theaters, including one vast naumachia where mock sea fights were held. (Schaff, Bib. Dia.) "In the beginning of the first century before Christ, the western Hauran was under the Jew Alexander Janneus, while the Nabateans occu. pied everything else to the east, including Damas cus, the rest of Hauran, and the Leja. When the Romans came, in B. C. 64, besides freeing the Greek cities of Gaulanitis and Gilead from the Jews, they drove the Nabateans to the southern edge of Hauran, but did not occupy Hauran it self." (Smith, Bib. Diet.) Under the Romans, civilization advanced, and. as evinced by the remains of churches and in scriptions, Christianity made rapid progress. In A. D. 632 the Moslem hordes from Arabia burst over the province like a tornado, and the blight swiftly fell, which lies heavy on the land to-day. The latest notice of a Christian building is an in scription found by the Rev. William Ewing, D. D.. at el-Kufr, which records the foundation of a church in A. D. 72o.
HAVE (hav), (Heb. yaw-tsaw', 2 Kings xi: 15), to take, conduct, guide, escort, bring, as in Shakespeare, "Your mistress sent to have me home to dinner." Used with various prepositions; as, to have away, to have forth, etc. (2 Kings Xi:15; 2 ChT0[1. XXiii:14; 2 SaM. xiii:9).
Such phrases may be considered as, 'Have in one's heart to,' (I Chron. xxviii :2; comp. Phil. i :7) 'I have you in my heart' ; 'I would have you with out carefulness' 0 Cor. vii :32) : would not have you ignorant,' (2 Cor. i :8) Who will have all men to be saved,' (I Tim. ii:4), (Ss Met, R. V. 'Who willeth that all men should be saved'). Comp. John xxi :22, Tyndale : 'Yf I will have him to tary tyll I come, what is that to the?'