Battle of Mount Tabor (biblical)
| Battle of Mount Tabor | |||||||
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| Part of Later Israelite Campaigns | |||||||
Luca Giordano, The Defeat of Sisera, c. 1692 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Israelites | Canaanites | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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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 and 1075 BCE, during the time of the Judges of the Hebrew Bible.