place
Kishon
קִישׁוֹן
Kishon, a river in northern Israel, where Deborah and Barak defeated Sisera's army (Judges 4:7, 13; 5:21).
- verses
- 5
- first named
- Judges 4:7
- last named
- 1 Kings 18:40
- feature
- river
- coordinates
- 32.82°N · 35.03°E
Kishon River (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 2 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Kishon in the text
The Kishon River is mentioned several times in the Bible, primarily in the context of military conflicts. It is located in northern Israel, near the city of Megiddo. In the time of Deborah and Barak, the Canaanite army led by Sisera was defeated near the Kishon River (Judges 4:7, 13; 5:21). The river is described as sweeping away the enemy forces. Later, during the reign of King Ahab, the prophet Elijah had the prophets of Baal slaughtered at the Kishon River after the contest on Mount Carmel (1Ki.18.40). The river is also mentioned in a prayer for God's intervention against Israel's enemies (Psalm 83:9).
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Stands in the same events as
- Elijah2 events
- Sisera2 events
- Harosheth-hagoyim1 event
The pattern
Where Kishon is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
5 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in Judges (3), 1 Kings (1) and Psalms (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 5, across 3 books. The name is written 6 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources