Battle of Mount Tabor (biblical)

Battle of Mount Tabor
	Part of Later Israelite Campaigns
	; Luca Giordano, The Defeat of Sisera, c. 1692.
Date	mid 12th century BCE
Location	Mount Tabor, Israel
Result	Israelite victory
Belligerents
Israelites	Canaanites
Commanders and leaders
Deborah; Barak; Jael	Sisera †; King of Hazor
Strength
10,000 men recruited from the tribes of Naphtali and Zebulun, primarily light infantry and light cavalry	40,000 dedicated infantry of various types ; 900 iron chariots
Casualties and losses
Relatively low	Relatively high

According to the Book of Judges (chapters 4 and 5) of the Hebrew Bible, the Battle of Mount Tabor was a military confrontation between the forces of King Jabin of Canaan who ruled from Hazor, and the Israelite army led by Barak and Deborah. The battle took place at Mount Tabor in Lower Galilee, at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley, 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of the Sea of Galilee, sometime between 1150—1075 BCE, during the time of the Judges of the Hebrew Bible.

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