Tribe of Zebulun
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According to the
Origin
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Zebulun | Merishah | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sered | Elon | Jahleel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Character
In the ancient
The partnership between Issachar and Zebulun is in an ideological dispute between those who believe that conditions and trade can be made in the post-mortem wage and those who say that the wages of the next world cannot be traded (
Role of the tribe
According to the Torah, the Tribe of Zebulun plays an important part in the early history of Israel. At the census of the tribes in the Desert of
At
During the rule of Joshua it received no special mention. In the Song of Deborah, the tribe is specially singled out as having "offered their lives to death in the region of Merom,"[10]; and praised because there came "out of Zebulun they that led the army to fight," as in Hebrew, "they that carry the pen of the writer," i.e., such as recruiting and inspecting officers.[11]
The reference is to Barak's campaign against Sisera,[citation needed] the commander of the forces of Jabin, King of Canaan.[12] They answered the call of Gideon and joined in battle against Madian;[13] and gave to Israel Elon, who judged it ten years.[14] Among those that followed David to Hebron to make him king were 50,000 fully armed men of Zebulun with no double heart,[15] who brought with them, as sign of their hearty allegiance, bounteous supplies of meat and drink to celebrate the accession of their new ruler.[16] When Hezekiah made reparation for the abominations of his father Ahaz, he invited all Israel to keep the Passover in the house of the Lord. Mockery and ridicule met the emissaries of the reformer; yet some were true to the religion of their fathers, and, even from far away Zebulun, went up to Jerusalem, destroyed the idols, and kept the feast of the unleavened bread.[17]
Division of the land
At the division of the land of Israel among the seven tribes not yet provided for, the lot of Zebulun was third. The tribe's territory started with Sarid (Joshua 19:10), which is supposed to have been Tel Shadud,[18] some five miles southwest of Nazareth. Zebulun's boundaries have not been made out. Of the nineteen proper names that the book of Joshua gives to guide us, only Bethlehem of Galilee (Beit lahm, seven miles northwest of Nazareth) can be identified with certainty, although the archaeological site Tel Hanaton is associated with the city Hanaton listed as the boundary with Asher. The historian Josephus assigns to Zebulun the land near to Carmel and the sea, as far as the Lake of Genesareth.[19] To its northwest lay Asher, to the southeast Issachar. It included a part of the Jezreel Valley, and the great highway from the sea to the lake. According to Christianity, within the territory of Zebulun, Jesus was raised, and did and said much that is narrated in the Gospels, especially in the Synoptics, about his Galilean ministry.
Fate
As part of the
Israeli Knesset member Ayoob Kara speculated that the Druze are descended from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel, probably Zevulun. Kara stated that the Druze share many of the same beliefs as Jews, and that he has genetic evidence to prove that the Druze were descended from Jews.[20]
See also
References
- ^ Joshua 19:10–16
- ^ Peake's Commentary on the Bible
- ^ Archibald Sayce
- Peninei Halakha
- ^ Numbers 1:31
- ^ Numbers 2:3–9
- ^ Numbers 13:10
- ^ Numbers 26:27
- ^ Numbers 34:25
- ^ Judges 5:18
- ^ Judges 5:14
- ^ Judges 4:10
- ^ Judges 6:35
- ^ Judges 12:11
- ^ I Chronicles 12:33
- ^ I Chronicles 12:41
- ^ II Chronicles 30:10–23
- ^ Zabulon: entry at the Catholic Encyclopedia
- ^ Josephus, Flavius, Antiquities of The Jews, Book V, Chapter 1, Par. 22, at Early Jewish Writings
- ^ Lev, David (25 October 2010). "MK Kara: Druze are Descended from Jews". Israel National News. Arutz Sheva. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). "Zebulun". Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.
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