4:23 That day God humiliated King Jabin of Canaan before the Israelites.
3:1 These were the nations the Lord permitted to remain so he could use them to test Israel – he wanted to test all those who had not experienced battle against the Canaanites. 4
5:19 Kings came, they fought;
the kings of Canaan fought,
at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, 8
but 9 they took no silver as plunder.
1 tn Heb “The hand of the Israelites became more and more severe against.”
2 tn Heb “cut off.”
3 tn Heb “Jabin king of Canaan.” The proper name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
4 tn Heb “did not know the wars of Canaan.”
7 tn Heb “the
8 tn Or “King Jabin of Hazor, a Canaanite ruler.”
9 tn Or “Harosheth of the Pagan Nations”; cf. KJV “Harosheth of the Gentiles.”
10 map For location see Map1-D4; Map2-C1; Map4-C2; Map5-F2; Map7-B1.
11 tn The contrastive conjunction “but” is interpretive.
13 tn Heb “who had not known a man with respect to the bed of a male.”