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Battles and sieges

  1. c. 1150 BCDeborah and Barak defeat Sisera at the Kishon Judg 4:12–21
    Barak's ten thousand from Mount Tabor against Sisera's nine hundred chariots of iron. Sisera's host is destroyed to the last man; Sisera flees on foot and dies in Jael's tent.

Verses (5)

Judg 4:7
And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.
Judg 4:13
And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
Judg 5:21
The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
1 Kgs 18:40
And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
Ps 83:9
Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

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