Bozrah

Busaira بلدة بُصرة Bozrah
Town
The ruins of Bozrah, the capital of Edom
Busaira
Coordinates: 30°42′50″N 35°39′29″E / 30.71389°N 35.65806°E / 30.71389; 35.65806
Country	Jordan
Province	Tafilah Governorate
Founded	1100 B.C.
Government
• Type	Municipality
• Mayor	Mazen Refoo
Time zone	GMT +2
• Summer (DST)	+3 (UTC)
Area code(s)	+(962)3

Botsra, Botzrah, Bozrah (Arabic: بصرة‎‎,Hebrew: בצרה‎‎) is an ancient biblical city in southern modern-day Jordan, adjacent to the modern town of Bouseira (alternatively Buseirah or Busheira.) It is located in the mountains of Jordan 20 km to the south of Tafilah (between Tafilah (Tophel) and Shoubak and closer to the latter.)

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.

The prophets Amos, Isaiah, and Jeremiah predicted Bozrah's destruction.

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).

"I swear by myself," declares the Lord, " that Bozrah will become a ruin and a curse, an object of horror and reproach; and all its towns will be in ruin forever." (Jeremiah 49:13)

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 (east of Jerusalem), 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.