The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, when Ehud was dead.
"Jabin king of Canaan"  (Judges 4:2).  A century earlier, Joshua had defeated "Jabin king of Hazor," who actually headed a coalition of a large number of petty `kings of Canaan'  (Joshua 11), but that Jabin was not the same man as the `Jabin' of  Judges 4.  We do not know whether or not he was another king bearing the same name, or if `Jabin' was a dynastic designation of all the kings of Hazor.  Keil stated that, "The `Jabin' here bore the same name as the earlier Jabin."[6]  Davis affirmed that, "The name `Jabin' was probably not a personal name, but a dynastic title.[7]  Contrary to Soggin's incredible allegation that, "The title `King of Canaan' never existed, calling it `an absurdity,'"[8] that title is here assigned to Jabin, and here the title has "existed" for more than three millenniums! Joshua's record of that previous encounter with the `King of Canaan' (called in Joshua `the King of Hazor') does NOT contradict what is written here.  The Joshua record reveals that Jabin King of Hazor was the chief executive for all of the other `Kings of Canaan' and the commander-in-chief of their united armies.  If such an executive was not a `king,' what was he?