Jabin] king of Hazor. Hazor] may be Tell el-Hurrawiyeh, 2½ m. S. of Kedesh-Naphtali. Shimron] (=Shimron-meron 12:20) is Semûnieh, W. of Nazareth. Achshaph] el Yasîf, the port of Accho. Hazor is again a powerful Canaanite centre in the time of Deborah (Judges 4) and its king bears the same name, or title, Jabin (=wise) and may have been of the same dynasty. 2, 3. RV 'that were on the north, in the hill-country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in the heights, of Dor on the west, to the Canaanite on the east..' The 'Arabah S. of Chinneroth 'means the plain S. of the lake of Gennesaret (Luke 5:1). Dor] near Mt. Carmel.
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Joshua 11:1
1 And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,