Zaanannim

Zaanannim was a frontier landmark on the southern border of Naphtali in lower Galilee (Joshua 19:33). The famous reference is Judges 4:11: "Heber the Kenite... pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh." Heber's tent became the pivotal location of one of the Bible's most arresting scenes: when the Canaanite general Sisera fled from his shattered army after Deborah and Barak's victory at the Kishon, he sought refuge in the tent of Heber's wife Jael, who gave him milk and then drove a tent peg through his temple while he slept (Judges 4:17-21). The oak at Zaanannim was apparently a known landmark giving its name to the surrounding district.