Study it in the app“YHWH sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, and he lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.”
YHWHיְהוָהsold themוַיִּמְכְּרֵםinto the handבְּיַדof Jabinיָבִיןkingמֶלֶךְof Canaan,כְּנַעַןwhoאֲשֶׁרreignedמָלַךְin Hazor.בְּחָצוֹרThe commanderוְשַׂרof his armyצְבָאוֹwas Sisera,סִיסְרָאand heוְהוּאlivedיוֹשֵׁבin Harosheth-hagoyim.בַּחֲרֹשֶׁת הַגּוֹיִם
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearshand over
To hand someone over to another, above all YHWH handing his people over to their enemies.
Where else “yimkre” appearspower
Literally "the hand": the strength and control someone has.
Where else “yad” appearsJabin
Jabin: a king of Hazor in the time of Joshua; another king of the same name appears in Judges 4.
Where else “yavin” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsCanaan
See it on the mapWhere else “kenaan” appearsreign
To be king of a people, or to begin ruling it as king.
Where else “malach” appearsHazor
See it on the mapWhere else “chatsor” appearschief
Someone set over others, in the army or in the state.
Where else “sar” appearsarmy
An army.
Where else “tseva” appearsSisera
Sisera, commander of the army of Jabin, the Canaanite king of Hazor. Later another person bears the same name (Ezra 2:53).
Where else “sisra” appearsdwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “yoshev” appearsHarosheth
Harosheth, a place in the north of Canaan where Sisera lived. Its full name is Harosheth-hagoyim, "Harosheth of the nations."
Where else “charoshet” appearsGentiles
The peoples other than Israel.
Where else “hagoyim” appears1Canaan
Today: Israel, West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, western Syria
The land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, today Israel, Palestine and parts of Lebanon.
God promised this land to Abraham and his descendants (Gen 17:8). Israel entered it after forty years in the wilderness (Josh 5:12).
2Hazor
Today: Tel Hazor ruins, Israel
A city in northern Israel, about 9 miles (15 km) north of the Sea of Galilee.
Joshua defeated and burned it (Josh 11:10-11). Later its king Jabin oppressed Israel until Deborah and Barak defeated him (Judg 4:2). Solomon fortified it (1 Kgs 9:15).
1The sons of Israel again did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH, now that Ehud was dead.
2 · This verse (above)
3The sons of Israel cried out to YHWH, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had oppressed the sons of Israel with force twenty years.
