Zebulun, << ZEHB yuh luhn, >> was the name of one of the 12 tribes of Israel. In the 1100’s B.C., Zebulun, with neighboring tribes, played a leading part in the defeat of the Canaanites by Deborah and Barak (Judges 4-5). Later, it was a part of the northern kingdom of Israel. In 733 B.C., Zebulun was taken by the Assyrians with the rest of Galilee. Jesus Christ’s home, Nazareth, lay in what had once been the tribe’s territory. Zebulun was named for the tenth son of Jacob, the sixth and youngest born to him by Leah (Genesis 30:20). The tribe claimed that it descended from him.
