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God caused a strong rainstorm that saturated the ground, causing the heavy iron chariots of the Canaanites to become stuck in the mud. [4] Rain filled the streams on the mountain causing a flash flood at the Wadi Kishon, sweeping many away( Judges 5:21 ) The Canaanites panicked and fled, and the Israelites pursued them and slew them to the last ...
The Defeat of Sisera by Luca Giordano shows Sisera in battle.. Harosheth Haggoyim (Hebrew: חרושת הגויים, lit. Smithy of the Nations) is a fortress described in the Book of Judges as the fortress or cavalry base of Sisera, commander of the army of "Jabin, King of Canaan".
Sisera (Hebrew: סִיסְרָא Sīsərāʾ ) was commander of the Canaanite army of King Jabin of Hazor, who is mentioned in Judges 4–5 of the Hebrew Bible.After being defeated by the forces of the Israelite tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali under the command of Barak and Deborah, Sisera was killed by Jael, who hammered a tent peg into his temple while he slept.
Jael (/ ˈ dʒ eɪ əl /) or Yael (/ ˈ j eɪ əl / ' Hebrew: יָעֵל Yāʿēl) is a heroine of the Bible who aids the Israelites in their war with King Jabin of the city of Hazor in Canaan by killing Sisera, the commander of Jabin's army. This episode is depicted in chapters 4 and 5 of the Book of Judges.
God caused a strong rainstorm which saturated the ground, causing the Canaanites heavy iron chariots to become stuck in the mud. [47] Rain filled the streams on the mountain causing a flash flood at the Wadi Kishon, sweeping many away. [48] The Canaanites panicked and fled, and the Israelites pursued them and slayed them to the last man. [49]
First mentioned in the story of Joseph (Genesis 50:9), "Iron chariots" are mentioned also in Joshua (17:16, 18) and Judges (1:19,4:3, 13) as weapons of the Canaanites and Israelites. 1 Samuel 13:5 mentions chariots of the Philistines , who are sometimes identified with the Sea Peoples or early Greeks .
Canaan [i] [1] [2] was a Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC.Canaan had significant geopolitical importance in the Late Bronze Age Amarna Period (14th century BC) as the area where the spheres of interest of the Egyptian, Hittite, Mitanni, and Assyrian Empires converged or overlapped.
In the Egyptian account Thutmose gathered an army of chariots and infantry numbering between ten and twenty thousand men. [4] As the Egyptians mustered their forces, the king of Kadesh gathered many tribal chieftains from Syria, Aram and Canaan around him, estimated at between ten and fifteen thousand men, [ 4 ] entered Megiddo and set his ...