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Persons Of The Bible -- Zebulon
The name "Zebulon" is a variant of "Zebulun."
The name means "dwelling or "a habitation".
Zebulon is the tenth of the sons of Jacob, according to the order in
which their births are enumerated, the sixth and last of Leah. (Genesis
30:20; 35:23; 46:14; 1 Chronicles 2:1) His birth is mentioned in
(Genesis 30:19,20) Of the individual Zebulun nothing is recorded. The
list of Genesis46 ascribes to him three sons, founders of the chief
families of the tribe (comp.) (Numbers 26:26) at the time of the
migration to Egypt. The tribe is not recorded to have taken part, for
evil or good, in any of the events of the wandering or the conquest. The
statement of Josephus is probably in the main correct, that it reached
on the one side to the Lake of Gennesareth and on the other to Carmel
and the Mediterranean. On the south it was bounded by Issachar, who lay
in the great plain or valley of the Kishon; on the north it had Naphtali
and Asher. Thus remote from the centre of government, Zebulun remains
throughout the history with one exception, in the obscurity which
envelops the whole of the northern tribes. That exception, however, is a
remarkable one. The conduct of the tribe during the struggle with Sisera,
when they fought with desperate valor side by side with their brethren
of Naphtali, was such as to draw down the special praise of Deborah, who
singles them out from cell the other tribes. (Judges 5:18)
Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries
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