Richter 4:2

Schlachter Bibel

Da verkaufte sie der Herr in die Hand Jabins, des Königs der Kanaaniter, der zu Hazor regierte; und sein Feldhauptmann war Sisera, welcher in Charoset-der Heiden wohnte.

Parallel Translations

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Da verkaufte sie Jehova in die Hand Jabins, des K�nigs der Kanaaniter, der zu Hazor regierte; und sein Heeroberster war Sisera, und er wohnte zu Haroscheth-Gojim.

Lutherbible (1912)
Und der HERR verkaufte sie in die Hand Jabins, des Königs der Kanaaniter, der zu Hazor saß; und sein Feldhauptmann war Sisera, und er wohnte zu Haroseth der Heiden.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sold: Judges 2:14, Judges 2:15, Judges 10:7, Isaiah 50:1, Matthew 18:25, "It seems to concern only north Israel."

Hazor: Joshua 11:1, Joshua 11:10, Joshua 11:11, Joshua 19:36

Sisera: 1 Samuel 12:9, Psalms 83:9

Harosheth: Judges 4:13, Judges 4:16

Reciprocal: Numbers 10:9 - oppresseth Deuteronomy 28:29 - thou shalt be Deuteronomy 28:43 - General Joshua 5:1 - Canaanites Joshua 12:19 - Hazor Joshua 23:15 - so shall Judges 3:3 - Canaanites 2 Samuel 10:18 - Shobach 1 Kings 9:15 - Hazor 2 Kings 15:29 - Hazor Ezra 5:12 - he gave Psalms 106:41 - he gave Daniel 1:2 - the Lord Joel 3:8 - I will

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord sold them,.... Delivered them into a state of bondage and slavery, where they were like men sold for slaves, see Judges 3:8;

into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; there was a city of this name, and a king of it of the same name, as here, in the times of Joshua, which city was taken and burnt by him, and its king slain, Joshua 11:1; and either the country about it is here meant, as Jericho in the preceding chapter is put for the country adjacent to it; or this city had been rebuilt, over which reigned one of the posterity of the ancient kings of it, and of the same name; or Jabin was a name common to the kings of Canaan, as Pharaoh to the Egyptian kings; and by Canaan is meant, not the land of Canaan in general, but a particular part of it inhabited by that, or some of that nation or tribe, which was peculiarly so called:

the captain of whose host [was] Sisera; Jabin maintained a standing army to keep the people of Israel in subjection, the general of which was Sisera, of whom many things are after said:

which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles; not Jabin, as many understand it, for he had his royal seat and residence in Hazor; but Sisera his general, and where the army under his command was. This place had its name either because it was built by same of various nations, or inhabited by workmen of different countries; or rather it was a wood originally, as the name signifies, to which many of the seven nations of the Canaanites fled from before Joshua, and hid and sheltered themselves, and in process of time built strong towers and fortresses in it, and became numerous and powerful; and so the Targum paraphrases the words,

"and he dwelt in the strength of the towers of the people;''

and in other times, as Strabo relates w, the northern parts of the land of Canaan, as those were where Hazor and Harosheth were, were inhabited by a mixed people, Egyptians, Arabians, and Phoenicians; such were they, he says, that held Galilee, Jericho, Philadelphia, and Samaria.

w Geograph. l. 16. p. 525.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See Joshua 11:1 note. Since the events there narrated, Hazor must have been rebuilt, and have resumed its position as the metropolis of the northern Canaanites; the other cities must also have resumed their independence, and restored the fallen dynasties.

Harosheth (identified by Conder with El Harathlyeh, see Judges 4:6) is marked by the addition of the Gentiles, as in Galilee of the nations Genesis 14:1; Isaiah 9:1. The name Harosheth signifies workmanship, cutting and carving, whether in stone or wood Exodus 31:5, and hence, might be applied to the place where such works are carried on. It has been conjectured that this being a great timber district, rich in cedars and fir-trees, and near Great Zidon Joshua 11:8, Jabin kept a large number of oppressed Israelites at work in hewing wood, and preparing it at Harosheth for transport to Zidon; and that these woodcutters, armed with axes and hatchets, formed the soldiers of Barak’s army.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 4:2. Jabin king of Canaan — Probably a descendant of the Jabin mentioned Joshua 11:1, c., who had gathered together the wrecks of the army of that Jabin defeated by Joshua. Calmet supposes that these Canaanites had the dominion over the tribes of Naphtali, Zebulun, and Issachar while Deborah judged in Ephraim, and Shamgar in Judah.