Zebulon

Family: Jacob's family · Role: son · First appears: The Birth Of Jacob's Children

Leah bore Jacob another son, Zebulon; she named him, and his descendants “carried on commerce.”

During the war with the Ninevites, Judah regained strength and fought alongside Zebulon. When fatigue overcame Judah, Zebulon “took up his station at his brother's left hand, and mowed down eighty thousand of the enemy.” On the third day, all the sons of Jacob united and routed the Ninevite host.

Relationship record

Life events

• Leah bore Jacob another son, Zebulon.(The Birth Of Jacob's Children)
  • With: Leah Jacob
  • “Her dudaim secured two sons for her, Issachar, the father of the tribe that devotes itself to the study of the Torah, whence his name meaning ‘reward,’ and Zebulon, whose descendants carried on commerce”
• Judah and Zebulon struck down many Ninevite warriors and put the army to flight.(The War With The Ninevites)
  • With: Judah
  • “Meantime Judah regained some of his strength, and, rising up in wrath and fury, and gnashing his teeth with a noise like unto thunder claps in midsummer, he put the army to flight.”
• Jacob and his sons routed the Ninevite host, and the fleeing army ultimately fled in defeat.(The War With The Ninevites)
  • With: Jacob Judah Levi Issachar Gad Dan Naphtali Joseph
  • “All the sons of Jacob united to oppose it, and they routed the host.”
• Jacob's sons defeated Esau's army, pursued the fugitives, and besieged them on Mount Seir.(Esau's Campaign Against Jacob · 📍 Mount Seir)
  • With: Jacob Judah Naphtali Gad Levi Dan Reuben Issachar Simon Benjamin Enoch (son of Reuben) Reuel Jeush Lotan Korah
  • “Four hundred were slain in battle, and six hundred fled, among the latter Esau's four sons, Reuel, Jeush, Lotan, and Korah.”
• Esau's sons and the fugitives submitted to peace and agreed to pay tribute.(Esau's Campaign Against Jacob · 📍 Mount Seir)
  • With: Jacob Judah Naphtali Gad Levi Dan Reuben Issachar Simon Benjamin Enoch (son of Reuben) Reuel Jeush Lotan Korah
  • “Now the sons of Esau and all the other fugitives came and fell down before them, bowed down, and entreated them without cease, until they concluded peace with them. But the sons of Jacob exacted tribute from them.”

The Birth Of Jacob's Children

• parent: Jacob “and Zebulon, whose descendants carried on commerce”
• parent: Leah “Leah called this last-born son of hers Zebulon”

The War With The Ninevites

• parent: Jacob “His twelve sons then took up their stand in twelve different places, leaving considerable intervals between one and another, and Jacob, a sword in his right hand and a bow in his left, advanced to the combat.”
• siblings with Judah “But fatigue overcame him, and Zebulon took up his station at his brother's left hand, and mowed down eighty thousand of the enemy.”

Esau's Campaign Against Jacob

• parent: Jacob “Reuben, Issachar, and Zebulon with fifty servants, to the north”

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Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume I. Made with Rho MD.