Naphtali

👨 Zebulon זְבוּלוּן

🌏 Lands

Cana? Jesus' 1st miracle (close to borders w/ Asher)

Maccabean battle (1 Maccabees 11:63–73; Josephus, "Ant." xiii. 5, § 6)

Nazareth

Combined

Judges 4 (Deborah, Barak) concerns 10,000 warriors from both tribes at Mount Tabor

• Ja'el ("mountain goat") secures the victory. She and Moses' in laws were Kenites
• also traditional site of Jesus' Transfiguration

Judges 8 (Gideon of Manasseh) has Naphtali (6:35, 7:23), maybe Zebulon (6:35) prevailing over Midian "near the hill of Moreh" מוֹרֶה (7:1

• "The Day of Midian" in Isaiah 9:1-7 is like "Armistice Day" or "V-E Day"
• Mt. Moriah, Isaac’s binding and Temple Mount, is מוֹרִיָּה

among the first to suffer deportation (Naphtali: 1 Kings 15:20; 2 Kings 15:29)

Matthew 4:12-17 quotes from Isaiah 9:1-7

almost all of Jesus' Galilean ministry occurs in either of the tribal lands

John 2, water to wine in Cana (Jesus' first miracle), is in one of the two tribal lands