Jabin

A person first named at Judges 4:2.

What we know — and how we know it

Bible — stated in scripture (with verse) · 1 Archaeology — physical evidence · 1

Life, role & deeds

BibleA king of Hazor whose commander Sisera oppressed Israel until Deborah and Barak broke his power.

Judges 4:2–24

↳ Deborah · Barak · Sisera

Imhotep tep — CC0 (via Wikimedia Commons) ArchaeologyHazor, the greatest city of Canaan, shows a violent destruction and burning — the kind of end its kings met in the biblical wars.

Late Bronze Age destruction and burning layer at Tel Hazor (Stratum XIII, 13th century BC); excavated by Yigael Yadin (1955-58) and Amnon Ben-Tor (from 1990); A. Ben-Tor, 'Hazor: Canaanite Metropolis, Israelite City' (Israel Exploration Society, 2016).

Where in scripture

Judges Psalms

Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
Judges 4:2

I will draw to you, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into your hand.’”
Judges 4:7

However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
Judges 4:17

So God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel on that day.
Judges 4:23

The hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
Judges 4:24

Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
Psalms 83:9

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.

Judges 4:2 Judges 4:7 Judges 4:17 Judges 4:23 Judges 4:24 Psalms 83:9

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