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Tabor
People's Dictionary of the Bible
or Tabor (tâ'bôr), a mound; or Mount Tabor. Judges 4:6. A single limestone mountain in central Palestine. It rises abruptly from the northeastern arm of the plain of Esdraelon, and stands entirely isolated except on the west, where a narrow ridge connects it with the hills of Nazareth. It is six miles east of Nazareth, and about 50 miles north of Jerusalem. As seen from a distance, it presents the appearance of a beautiful flattened cone, being symmetrical in its proportions, and rounded off like a hemisphere or the segment of a circle. Tabor makes a prominent figure in the Old, but is not named in the New Testament. It was the boundary between Issachar and Zebulun. Joshua 19:12; Joshua 19:22. Barak, at the command of Deborah, assembled his forces on Tabor, and descended thence, with "ten thousand men after him," into the plain, and conquered Sisera on the banks of the Kishon. Judges 4:6-15. The brothers of Gideon, each of whom "resembled the children of a king," were murdered here by Zebah and Zalmunna. Judges 8:18-19. There are the ruins of a fortress on the summit of Tabor.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Tabor'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/t/tabor.html. 1893.
