The Kishon
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Deborah's song: the torrent Kishon swept them away, the ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon.
The Kishon drains the Jezreel valley toward the sea below Carmel. In the battle against Sisera, the flooded plain trapped his chariots and the river took them; centuries later, Elijah's contest on Carmel ended at the same brook.
The seasonal river of the Jezreel valley that swept away Sisera's chariots and ran at Elijah's hand on Carmel.
- the Kishon, the brook Kishon
- Nahr al-Muqatta (the Kishon) · Israel
The Kishon is a wadi most of the year and a torrent in the rains. Chariots are supreme on dry ground and useless in mud; the weather, prayed for and sent, decided the battle.
- Judges 5:20-21 Deborah's song: the torrent Kishon swept them away, the ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon.
- Judges 4:13-16 Sisera's nine hundred chariots routed beside the Kishon
- 1 Kings 18:40 The prophets of Baal brought down to the brook Kishon
- Psalm 83:9 Do to them as you did to Sisera at the river Kishon
What we know
Certain
- The river's course through the Jezreel valley below Carmel is secure.