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Sisera caught fish enough in his beard when bathing in the Kishon to provision his whole army, and thirty-one kings followed Sisera merely for the opportunity of drinking, or otherwise using, the waters of Israel.
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Sisera and Kishon
Judges 5: 20 says that " the stars in their courses fought against Sisera ," and the following verse implies that the army was swept away by the river Kishon.
Sisera and army
* Deborah the prophetess and Barak the army leader ( 4-5 ) vs. Jabin of Hazor ( a city in Canaan ) and Sisera, his captain
Sisera ( Hebrew: סיסרא ) was commander of the Canaanite army of King Jabin of Hazor mentioned in the of the Hebrew Bible.
According to the Sephardic tradition, a full 101 blasts are sounded, corresponding to the 100 cries of the mother of Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army who did not return home after being killed by the Yael ( Judges 5: 28 ).
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After being oppressed by Jabin, the king of Canaan, in Hazor, for twenty years, () Deborah prevailed upon Barak who was the head captain of the army at that time, to face the Assyrian General Sisera, the commander of Jabin's army, in battle.
Jabin a king of Canaan reigned at Hazor and the commander of his army was Sisera who lived in Haroseth-ha-goiim.
According to the Book of Judges Hazor was the seat of Jabin, the king of Canaan, whose commander, Sisera, led a Canaanite army against Barak, but was ultimately defeated.
Jabin's army was led by Sisera ( Judg.
Sisera and for
In the ancient Song of Deborah, Naphtali is commended, along with Zebulun, for risking their lives in the fight against Sisera ; in the prose account of the event, which textual scholars regard as a much later narrative based on the poem, there is the addition that Barak, the leader of the anti-Sisera forces, hails from the tribe of Naphtali.
During the period of the Israelite Judges, Sisera commanded nine hundred iron chariots and oppressed the Israelites for twenty years from Harosheth Haggoyim, a fortified cavalry base.
According to the Midrash, Sisera engaged in sexual intercourse with Jael seven times, but because she was attempting to exhaust him in order to kill him, her sin was for Heaven's sake and therefore praiseworthy.
Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi ( 1728-1804 ) wrote an oratorio, Debora e Sisera, for the Lenten season of 1788 at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, which was said to have been " almost universally regarded as one of the most sublime works of the late 18th century.
German composer Simon Mayr wrote an oratorio ( 1793 ) on the story of Sisera for the church of San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti in Venice.
Despite appearing to have had good contact with the markets of Phoenicia, Asher appears, throughout its history, to have been fairly disconnected from the other tribes of Israel ; additionally it seems to have taken little part in the antagonism portrayed in the Bible between the Canaanites and the other tribes, for example in the war involving Barak and Sisera.
Michael Coogan writes that Jael being a woman " is a further sign that Yahweh ultimately is responsible for the victory: The mighty Canaanite general Sisera will be ' sold ' by the Lord ' into the hand of a woman ' ( Judges 4: 9 )-the ultimate degradation.
Barak and Deborah are credited with defeating the Canaanite armies led by Sisera, who for twenty years had oppressed the Israelites.
Sisera and Israel
Yael or Jael ( Hebrew Ya ' el, י ָ ע ֵ ל, the name of the Nubian Ibex ) is a character mentioned in the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible, as the heroine who killed Sisera to deliver Israel from the troops of king Jabin.
As a result of the killing of Sisera, God gave the victory to Israel.
Sisera and .
* Jael assassinates Sisera, a retreating general who was the enemy of the Israelites, according to Judges 5: 23 – 27.
He hypothesizes that Biblical Sisera was a Sherden general and that the archaeological site at el-Ahwat ( whose architecture resembles Nuraghe sites in Sardinia ) was Sisera's capital, Harosheth Haggoyim.
According to the ancient Song of Deborah, Reuben declined to take part in the war against Sisera, the people instead idly resting among their flocks as if it were a time of peace, though the decision to do so was taken with a heavy heart.
Yael Killing Sisera, by Palma the Younger.
After being defeated by Barak, Sisera was killed by Jael, who hammered a tent peg into his temple.
After the prophetess Deborah persuaded Barak to face Sisera in battle, Barak, with an Israelite force of ten thousand, defeated Sisera at the Battle of Mount Tabor on the plain of Esdraelon.
After losing the battle, Sisera fled to the settlement of Heber the Kenite in the plain of Zaanaim, where he was received by Jael, Heber's wife.
" Jael promised to hide Sisera and covered him with a rug, but after he fell asleep, Jael drove a tent peg through his temple with a mallet.
The Israeli scholar Adam Zertal identifies Sisera with the sea people called Shardana ( or Sherden ), arguing that Sisera came from the island of Sardinia.
The Talmud states that the descendants of Sisera studied Torah in Jerusalem and even taught children there.
Also according to the Midrash, Sisera had previously conquered every country against which he had fought.
According to B. Gittin, the descendants of Sisera were teachers of the young in Jerusalem.
" Jael Smote Sisera, and Slew Him ," by James Tissot in the collection of the Jewish Museum ( New York ).
caught and fish
Frogs have been caught on fish hooks baited with red flannel and green frogs ( Rana clamitans ) have been found to have stomachs full of elm seeds that they had seen floating past.
* The constellation Pisces, which may have been treated as two fish caught by Dictys the fisherman who was brother of Polydectes, king of Seriphos, the place where Perseus and his mother Danaë were stranded
From it she was rescued by a priest named Martin, who dug a subterraneous passage, by which she escaped, and remained concealed in the woods, her rescuer supporting her, meantime, by the fish he caught in the lake.
Wood from the huts was used for firewood, and fish caught off the fringing reef combined with some potatoes and onions they had saved from their sinking vessel to augment the island's meager ( as it turned out ) supply of coconuts.
' Waterzooi ' is a local stew originally made from freshwater fish caught in the rivers and creeks of Ghent, but nowadays often made with chicken instead of fish.
The son of one of the Dragon Kings ( a ruler-god of the sea ) was caught by a fisherman while taking the form of a fish.
They consume a wide range of prey as well as fish, usually caught by swooping down from a perch.
Smoking and salting of fish — in particular of spawning salmon and herring which are caught in large numbers in a short time and can be made suitable for edible storage by this practice predates 19th century Britain and indeed written history, probably going back as long as humans have been using salt to preserve food.
Expecting to find a small fish population, the researchers caught twenty fish in one catch, increasing previous estimates of the loch's fish population about ninefold.
Most penguins feed on krill, fish, squid, and other forms of sealife caught while swimming underwater.
Originally, this sushi was known as Edomae zushi because it used freshly caught fish in the Edo-mae ( Edo Bay or Tokyo Bay ).
Seafood, beyond the occasionally locally caught fish ( pan-fried catfish is much loved ) and crawfish, were unavailable until modern times.
Fish are caught by employing fish poisons such as the juice of the pus-vel ( Entada scandens ) and daluk-kiri ( Cactus milk ).
Recreational fishing has conventions, rules, licensing restrictions and laws that limit the way in which fish may be caught ; typically, these prohibit the use of nets and the catching of fish with hooks not in the mouth.
There is a growing gap between how many fish are available to be caught and humanity ’ s desire to catch them, a problem that gets worse as the world population grows.
Adult ducks are fast fliers, but may be caught on the water by large aquatic predators including big fish such as the North American muskie and the European pike.
In the elaborate First Salmon Ceremony, which is still observed, the entire community shares the flesh of a Spring Chinook, then returns its remains to the river where it was caught, so that it can inform the other fish of how well it was received.
Cod, pollock, saithe, mackerel and other species of saltwater fish are commonly caught in the Romsdalsfjord, both from land and from boat.
He wrote in Walden: " The practical objection to animal food in my case was its uncleanness ; and besides, when I had caught and cleaned and cooked and eaten my fish, they seemed not to have fed me essentially.
Unlike oily fish, white fish contain oils only in their liver, rather than in their gut, and can therefore be gutted as soon as they are caught, on board the ship.
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