Now Heber the Kenite— This verse is a parenthesis, to render more intelligible what follows in the 17th verse. The Kenites lived after the manner of the Midianites, from whom they descended, in tents, not in houses. Zaanaim was in the tribe of Naphtali, where there was a plain, or rather an oak grove.
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Judges 4:11
11 Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.