Jabin (king of Hazor)

• Joshua 11:1 says, “When Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph”; at 11:10–11 “Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword”, and he burned Hazor with fire.
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  • JOS 11:1–5, engwebp

    ¹When Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,

    ²and to the kings who were on the north, in the hill country, in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,

    ³to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

    ⁴They went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.

    ⁵All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.

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  • JOS 11:10–15, engwebp

    ¹⁰Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword; for Hazor used to be the head of all those kingdoms.

    ¹¹They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed. He burned Hazor with fire.

    ¹²Joshua captured all the cities of those kings, with their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.

    ¹³But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only. Joshua burned that.

    ¹⁴The children of Israel took all the plunder of these cities, with the livestock, as plunder for themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They didn’t leave any who breathed.

    ¹⁵As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua. Joshua did so. He left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses.

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• Judges 4:2 says that the LORD sold the children of Israel “into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor”; 4:17 says, “there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite”; and at 4:23–24 God subdues Jabin the king of Canaan on that day, and the hand of the children of Israel prevails against him until they have destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
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  • JDG 4:1–3, engwebp

    ¹The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, when Ehud was dead.

    ²The LORD 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.

    ³The children of Israel cried to the LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years.

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  • JDG 4:17–22, engwebp

    ¹⁷However 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.

    ¹⁸Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, “Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; don’t be afraid.” He came in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.

    ¹⁹He said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty.” She opened a container of milk, and gave him a drink, and covered him.

    ²⁰He said to her, “Stand in the door of the tent, and if any man comes and inquires of you, and says, ‘Is there any man here?’ you shall say, ‘No.’”

    ²¹Then Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground, for he was in a deep sleep; so he fainted and died.

    ²²Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek.” He came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his temples.

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  • JDG 4:23–24, engwebp

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

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

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Joshua 11:1 names Jabin king of Hazor, and 11:10 says that Joshua took Hazor and struck its king with the sword; Judges 4:2 and 4:17 name Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor, and Jabin the king of Hazor. Neither book says whether the two Jabins are one man. This collection records them as two entries and does not decide whether they are the same man.