Jabin
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Jabin (ja'-bin) is a Biblical name meaning 'discerner', or 'the wise'. It may refer to:
According to Norman Gottwald, Joshua had nothing to do with the incident, which probably reflects a tradition of the late 13.century BCE destruction of the city by part of a group later identified with the Israelite tribe of Naphtali
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- A king of Hazor, at the time of the entrance of IsraelIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
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(Joshua 11:1-14), whose overthrow and that of the northern chief with whom he had entered into a confederacy against Joshua was the crowning act in the conquest of the land (11:21-23; comp 14:6-15). This great battle, fought at Lake Merom, was the last of JoshuaJoshuaJoshua , is a minor figure in the Torah, being one of the spies for Israel and in few passages as Moses's assistant. He turns to be the central character in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Joshua...
's battles of which we have any record. Here for the first time the Israelites encountered the iron chariotsIron chariotsThe Hebrew Bible mentions iron chariots in the following contexts:The perceived incongruity of these passages inspired the 1921 expedition by archaeologist and University of Pennsylvania museum curator Clarence Stanley Fisher , in which he traveled to the Holy Land seeking physical evidence of...
and horses of the Canaanites.
According to Norman Gottwald, Joshua had nothing to do with the incident, which probably reflects a tradition of the late 13.century BCE destruction of the city by part of a group later identified with the Israelite tribe of Naphtali
Naphtali
According to the Book of Genesis, Naphtali was the second son of Jacob with Bilhah. He was the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Naphtali. However, some Biblical scholars view this as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the...
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- Another king of Hazor, called "the king of Canaan," who overpowered the Israelites of the north one hundred and sixty years after Joshua's death, and for twenty years held them in painful subjection. The whole population were paralyzed with fear, and gave way to hopeless despondency (Judges 5:6-11), until Deborah and BarakBarakBarak , Al-Burāq the son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali, was a military general in the Book of Judges in the Bible. He was the commander of the army of Deborah, the prophetess and heroine of the Hebrew Bible...
aroused the national spirit, and gathering together ten thousand men, gained a great and decisive victory over Jabin in the plain of Esdraelon (Judges 4:10-16; Compare Psalms 83:9). This was the first great victory Israel had gained since the days of Joshua.