So on that day Israel saw God defeat Jabin, the Canaanite king.
Parallel translations
- WEB So God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel on that day.
- KJV So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
- BSB On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites.
- NKJV So on that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan in the presence of the children of Israel.
- NASB So God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan on that day before the sons of Israel.
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Quick answer
God subdues Jabin, king of Canaan, before Israel that day.
Overview
The decisive subduing of Jabin is credited directly to God. The deliverance, accomplished through Deborah, Barak, and Jael, is fundamentally the Lord's work. Israel's enemy is broken not by superior force but by divine intervention on behalf of His people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Ps 18:47even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.
- Neh 9:24“So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they pleased.
- Ps 18:39For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
- Ps 81:14I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
- Ps 47:3He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet.
- 1 Chr 22:18“Isn’t Yahweh your God with you? Hasn’t he given you rest on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people.
- 1 Cor 15:28When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.
- Heb 11:33who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
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