Zebulun @ dwelling, the sixth and youngest son of Jacob and Leah Genesis:30:20). Little is known of his personal history. He had three sons (46:14).
Zebulun, Lot of @ in Galilee, to the north of Issachar and south of Asher and Naphtali Joshua:19:10-16), and between the Sea of Galilee and the Mediterranean. According to ancient prophecy this part of Galilee enjoyed a large share of our Lord's public ministry Isaiah:9:1-2; Matthew:4:12-16).
Zebulun, Tribe of @ numbered at Sinai Numbers:1:31) and before entering Canaan (26:27). It was one of the tribes which did not drive out the Canaanites, but only made them tributary Judges:1:30). It took little interest in public affairs. It responded, however, readily to the summons of Gideon (6:35), and afterwards assisted in enthroning David at Hebron ( 1Chronicles:12:33-40). Along with the other northern tribes, Zebulun was carried away into the land of Assyria by Tiglath-pileser ( 2Kings:15:29). In Deborah's song the words, "Out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer" Judges:5:14) has been rendered in the R.V., "They that handle the marshal's staff." This is a questionable rendering. "The word _sopher_ ('scribe' or 'writer') defines the word _shebhet_ ('rod' or 'pen') with which it is conjoined. The 'rod of the scribe' on the Assyrian monuments was the stylus of wood or metal, with the help of which the clay tablet was engraved, or the papyrus inscribed with characters. The scribe who wielded it was the associate and assistant of the 'lawgivers.'" (Sayce).
ZEBULUN @ - (a habitation), the tenth of the sons of Jacob, according to the order in which their births are enumerated, the sixth and last of Leah. Genesis:30:20Genesis:35:23Genesis:46:14 ; 1Chronicles:2:1) His birth is mentioned in Genesis:30:19-20) Of the individual Zebulun nothing is recorded. The list of Genesis:46 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)
ZEBULUNITES, THE @ - the members of the tribe of Zebulun. Numbers:26:27) only.
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