Discovery BoxJudges 4:1-3 
Context4:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight 1 after Ehud’s death. 4:2 The Lord turned them over to 2 King Jabin of Canaan, who ruled in Hazor. 3 The general of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth Haggoyim. 4 4:3 The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, because Sisera 5 had nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels, 6 and he cruelly 7 oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.
1 tn Heb “did evil in the eyes of the
2 tn Heb “the
3 tn Or “King Jabin of Hazor, a Canaanite ruler.”
map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.
4 tn Or “Harosheth of the Pagan Nations”; cf. KJV “Harosheth of the Gentiles.”
5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sisera) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels,” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255, and the article by R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.
7 tn Heb “with strength.”
