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Hazor

Hazor was a major Canaanite city, whose king Jabin led a coalition against Israel; it was captured and destroyed by Joshua (Joshua 11:1,10-11,13), later oppressing Israel before being defeated by Deborah and Barak.

The name Hazor means “court; hay”

PlaceOld Testament5 books12 verses

Summary

A location first mentioned at Joshua 11:1; referred to as Hazor (חָצוֹר) or Hezron (חֶצְרוֹן).

Location

Identified as
Tel Hazor
Certainty
Widely agreed (93% of scholarship)
Coordinates
33.018° N, 35.569° E
Hazor
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Events

Dates are approximate

Glossary entries

Hazor Hezron (Place)

Alternative names

Mentions

  1. Joshua 11:1חָצוֹר · Hazor
    Now when Jabin king of Hazor heard about these things, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon; to the kings of Shimron and Achshaph;
  2. Joshua 11:10חָצוֹר · Hazor
    At that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor and put its king to the sword, because Hazor was formerly the head of all these kingdoms.
  3. Joshua 11:11חָצוֹר · Hazor
    The Israelites put everyone in Hazor to the sword, devoting them to destruction. Nothing that breathed remained, and Joshua burned down Hazor itself.
  4. Joshua 11:13חָצוֹר · Hazor
    Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds, except Hazor, which Joshua burned.
  5. Joshua 12:19חָצוֹר · Hazor
    …the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
  6. Joshua 15:3חֶצְרוֹן · Hezron
    …proceeded south of the Ascent of Akrabbim, continued on to Zin, went over to the south of Kadesh-barnea, ran past Hezron up to Addar, and curved toward Karka.
  7. Joshua 19:36חָצוֹר · Hazor
    Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,
  8. Judges 4:2חָצוֹר · Hazor
    So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.
  9. Judges 4:17חָצוֹר · Hazor
    Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
  10. 1 Samuel 12:9חָצוֹר · Hazor
    But they forgot the LORD their God, and He sold them into the hand of Sisera the commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of Moab, who fought against them.
  11. 1 Kings 9:15חָצוֹר · Hazor
    This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
  12. 2 Kings 15:29חָצוֹר · Hazor
    In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.