The name Sisera
is non-Semitic. It might be Hittite or Hurrian like Shamgar, or he may have been a prominent member of the so-called Sea People who arrived in Canaan from the region around the Adriatic in the early Iron Age.
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The name Sisera
is non-Semitic. It might be Hittite or Hurrian like Shamgar, or he may have been a prominent member of the so-called Sea People who arrived in Canaan from the region around the Adriatic in the early Iron Age.
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2 And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.