Jabin

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Jabin ( Hebrew יָבִין, either from Hebrew בנה bnh , "God builds / creates" or Hebrew בין bīn "the discerning / [God] perceives") is a person from the Old Testament of the Bible . As king of the Canaanites , he resided in Hazor .

Biblical report

According to the book of Joshua , the city of Hazor was burned down during the conquest of the Israelites under Joshua, the son of Nun , and King Jabin was slain by Joshua ( Jos 11  EU ).

But Jabin is mentioned again in the Book of Judges ( Ri 4  EU ), whose reports are located later. According to this, he is said to have suppressed the Israelites for twenty years after the death of the judge Ehud by his general Sisera . On the advice of the prophetess and judge Debora and in her company, Barak moved with 10,000 men to the mountain Tabor and from there to the brook Kishon , where Sisera had gone to meet him with 900 chariots and his whole army. The Canaanite troops were pursued to their base in Haroschet-Goyim and completely destroyed.

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The " Canaanites " were more like a network of city-states than a unified empire. Since the king and his residence only serve as a background in the second report, this could be a fiction to underpin the claim of the authors of the Book of Judges to an Israelite kingdom.

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