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Territory of Zebulun (Sebulon), 1865 mapIn the ancient Song of Deborah, Zebulun are described as sending to the battle those that handle the sopher shebet.Traditionally this has been interpreted as referring to the "rod of the scribe", an object that in Assyrian monuments was a stylus of wood or metal used to inscribe clay tablets, or to write on papyrus; thus, those who wielded it would have ...
The land of Zabulon, and the land of Naphtali, which is the way of the sea, and which is beyond Jordan, viz. the people of Galilee of the Gentiles, the people which walked in darkness. [9] Glossa Ordinaria: Note that there are two Galilees; one of the Jews, the other of the Gentiles. This division of Galilee had existed from Solomon's time, who ...
The Torah states that Zebulun had three sons – Sered, Elon, and Jahleel – each the eponymous founder of a clan. They risked their lives on the battlefield with Naphtali from Judges 5 's Song of Deborah and Barak : "Zebulun is a people who exposed its soul to death, Naphtali also -- on high places of the field."
Capernaum was located in Naphtali, but it was near Zebulun. The town is mentioned nowhere in the Old Testament, but both the town and Jesus' attendance at its synagogue feature in all four Gospels. Matthew is the only source that has Jesus actually living in the town. The other three have him only preaching and meeting his disciples there.
A map of Galilee. The Zebulun Valley is along the Haifa Bay Zevulun Valley. The Zevulun Valley or Zvulun Valley (Hebrew: עמק זבולון, Emek Zvulun) is a fertile coastal territory in the North of Israel, part of the Israeli coastal plain along the Haifa Bay. [1] The length of the valley is 14 km, with its maximum width is up to 9 ...
Delegation of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, bearing gifts to the Assyrian ruler Shalmaneser III, c. 840 BCE, on the Black Obelisk, British Museum. The scriptural basis for the idea of lost tribes is 2 Kings 17:6: "In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the ...
This verse refers to the lands of Zebulun and of Naphtali mentioned in the previous verse, and where Jesus has chosen to reside according to Matthew 4:13. The verse is referring to the Assyrian invasion of Northern Israel and predicting that after this dark period a new light would shine.
And leaving Nazareth, He came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the regions of Zebulun and Naphtali, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, By the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles: The people who sat in darkness have seen a ...