Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Merone. Hebrew, "In the heights of the field, or of Merome. "Some take this place to be the lake Semechon, but we have endeavoured to show that it was in the vicinity of Thanac, Josue xi. 5. (Calmet)
Thabor was in the midst of a great field or plain. (Du Hamel)
Barac seems to have been at the head of 10,000 men, of the tribe of Issachar, attacking Sisara, at the foot of Thabor, while 40,000 of the tribes of Nephthali and Zabulon, almost without arms, fell upon the kings of Chanaan, who had posted themselves near the waters of Mageddo, to intercept any recruits that might be sent from the southern tribes, ver. 8, 15, 19. (Calmet)
