Meroz

A plain in the north of Palestine, the inhabitants of which were severely condemned because they came not to help Barak against Sisera (Judg. 5:23: comp. 21:8-10; 1 Sam. 11:7). It has been identified with Marassus, on a knoll to the north of Wady Jalud, but nothing certainly is known of it. Like Chorazin, it is only mentioned in Scripture in connection with the curse pronounced upon it.

(refuge), a place, (Judges 5:23) denounced because its inhabitants had refused to take any part in the struggle with Sisera. Meroz must have been in the neighborhood of the Kishon, but its real position is not known. Possibly it was destroyed in the obedience to the curse.

ME'ROZ (refuge), a place in the northern part of Palestine, the inhabitants of which were accursed for not having taken the field with Barak against Sisera. Jud 5:23. Wylie supposes the ruins el-Mazraah, near the river Kishon, to mark the site of Meroz; Wilson prefers Kefr-Musa, south of Tabor; and Thomson Meiron, 6 miles west of Safed, as the representative of Meroz.

secret, leanness

ME'ROZ (refuge), a place in the northern part of Palestine, the inhabitants of which were accursed for not having taken the field with Barak against Sisera. Jud 5:23. Wylie supposes the ruins el-Mazraah, near the river Kishon, to mark the site of Meroz; Wilson prefers Kefr-Musa, south of Tabor; and Thomson Meiron, 6 miles west of Safed, as the representative of Meroz.