Difference between revisions of "Plain Of Zaanaim"

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<p> [[Rather]] "oak" or "terebinth of Zaanaim"; 'elown ( Judges 4:11). [[Zaanannim]] ( Joshua 19:33). [[Heber]] the [[Kenite]] pitched his tent unto it when [[Sisera]] took refuge with his wife Jael. Near [[Kedesh]] Naphtali; "the plain of the swamp" (Targum). The [[Talmud]] (Megillah Jerus. i.) identifies it with Agniya ( agne means "swamp") hak Κodesh , the marsh on the northern border of lake Huleh; still the Bedouins' favorite camping ground. Stanley, however, conjectures the "green plain with massive terebinths," adjoining on the S. the plain containing the remains of Kedesh. [[Possibly]] from a [[Hebrew]] root "to load beasts" as nomads do. But as the Kedesh meant in Judges 4 is that on the shores of the sea of Galilee, only 16 miles from [[Tabor]] the scene of the battle, and within the bounds of Naphtali, the place called Bessum in the plain between this Kedesh and Tabor (identical with Bitzaanaim, and near [[Adami]] ( Joshua 19:33), now ed Dameh, and [[Nekeb]] now Nakib) doubtless corresponds to Zaanaim. Thus, Sisera's flight will be but for five or six miles from the scene of his defeat, not too far for one already fatigued, and in a line just opposite to that of the pursuit of his army toward Harosheth. (See KADESH; KEDESH). (Palestine [[Exploration]] [[Quarterly]] Statement, October 1877, p. 191, 192.) </p>

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