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    One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Jabin. Every Jabin in the Bible

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    Jabin

    יָבִין

    Jabin, a Canaanite king of Hazor, oppressed Israel for twenty years until he was defeated by Deborah and Barak.

    verses
    6
    first named
    Judges 4:2
    last named
    Psalms 83:10
    period
    before Israel's Monarchy
    tribe
    Canaan

    Description

    Who was Jabin?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Jabin, a Canaanite king of Hazor, is mentioned in the book of Judges as an oppressor of Israel. During this time, the Israelites had done evil in the sight of the Lord, and as a result, God allowed Jabin to overpower them. Jabin had a commander named Sisera, who led a powerful army with nine hundred chariots of iron (Jdg.4.2-3).

    For twenty years, Jabin oppressed the Israelites, until they cried out to the Lord for help (Jdg.4.3). God raised up Deborah, a prophetess and judge, to deliver Israel. Deborah summoned Barak and instructed him to gather an army to fight against Sisera (Jdg.4.6-7).

    Barak agreed to go only if Deborah would accompany him, to which she consented, but warned that the honor of the victory would go to a woman (Jdg.4.8-9). Deborah and Barak led the Israelite army against Sisera, and with the Lord's help, they defeated the Canaanite forces (Jdg.4.14-16).

    Sisera fled on foot and sought refuge in the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite. Jael invited him in and covered him with a blanket, but while he slept, she drove a tent peg through his temple, killing him (Jdg.4.17-22).

    On that day, God subdued Jabin before the Israelites, and they eventually destroyed him (Jdg.4.23-24). The defeat of Jabin and Sisera is also mentioned in Psalm Jdg.83.9 as an example of God's power to deliver His people from their enemies.

    This account demonstrates the consequences of Israel's disobedience and the importance of crying out to God in times of oppression. It also highlights the role of women, such as Deborah and Jael, in God's plan of deliverance for His people.

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    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Jabin7 of 7 entities the graph connects to Jabin, in one group: events 7. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.Israel5 events · 2,578 versesPeace1 event · 98 versesMidian1 event · 59 versesOppression1 event · 37 versesSisera1 event · 17 versesHazor1 event · 12 versesEn-dor1 event · 3 versesJabin

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    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Jabin happensAll 3 places the claims about Jabin reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Canaan, Hazor, En-dor. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Jabin there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.CanaanHazorEn-dor
    before Israel's MonarchyAll 3 places the claims about Jabin reach

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    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 6, across 2 books. The name is written 7 times in them.

    1. Judges5 verses

      4:24:74:174:234:24

    2. Psalms1 verse

      83:9

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    ElsewhereIsraelPatriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribesElsewhereDavidAnointed king of Israel, ancestor of Jesus ChristElsewhereJudahIsraelite tribe, kingdom, and province

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