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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Meroz
The Song of Deborah curses it. The angel of the Lord calls down a curse on Meroz for not coming to help against Sisera's army, while other tribes in the poem are praised for answering. Nobody knows where it was, though some think it sat close to the battle in the Jezreel Valley, which would make staying home worse.
The Song of Deborah curses it. The angel of the Lord calls down a curse on Meroz for not coming to help against Sisera's army, while other tribes in the poem are praised for answering. Nobody knows where it was, though some think it sat close to the battle in the Jezreel Valley, which would make staying home worse.
Meroz appears only in the Song of Deborah, cursed by the angel of the Lord for failing to come to Israel's aid against Sisera's army, in contrast to the tribes praised earlier in the poem for answering the call (Judges 5:23). The town's location is unknown, and no convincing identification has been proposed; some scholars suspect it lay near the battle site in the Jezreel Valley, close enough that its refusal to fight would have been especially damning.
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- Judges 5:23
