Ja'bin (Heb. Yabin', V^^, discerner ; Sept. 'laji'iQ [v. r. 'Ia/3ij', but 'lajStiv in Psa. Ixxxiii, 9], Josephus 'lafilvoQ, A nt. v, 5, 1), the name of two khigs of the Ca- naanitish city Hazor. See Hazor. It was possibly a royal title, like Agag among the Amalekites, and Abim- elech among the Philistines.
1. A king of Hazor, and one of the most powerful of all the princes who reigned in Canaan when it was in- vaded by the IsraeUtes (Josh, xi, 1-14). His dominion seems to have extended over all the north part of the country ; and after the ruin of the league formed against the Hebrews in the south by Adonizedek, king of Jeru- salem, he assembled his tributaries near the waters of Merom (the Lake Hideh), and called all the people to arms. This coalition was destroyed, as the one in the south had been, and Jabin himself perished in the sack of Hazor, his capital, B.C. cir. 1G15. This prince was the last powcrfid enemy with whom Joshua combated, and his overthrow seems to have been regarded as the crowning act in the conquest of the Promised Land, leaving only the Anakim in the mountains of Judah and Ephraim to be dispossessed in detail (Josh, xi, 21 23 ; comp. xiv, G-15).
2. Another king of Hazor. and probably descended from the preceding (Judg. iv, 2, 3), with whom some (iVIaurer, Comment, on Josh, xi ; Hervey, Genealogies, p 228) have confounded him (see Havernick, Einleit. II, i 53 ; Keil, on Joshua xi, 10-15). It appears that during one of the servitudes of the IsraeUtes, probably when they lay mider the yoke of Cushan or Eglon, the king-
dom of Hazor was reconstructed. The narrative givea to this second Jabin even the title of " king of Canaan ;" and this, with the possession of 900 iron-armed war- chariots, implies unusual power and extent of dominion. The iniquities of the Israelites having lost them the di- vine protection, Jabin gained the mastery ov^r them ; and, stimulated by the memory of apcient hostilities, oppressed them heavily for twenty years, B.C. 1429- 1409. From this thraldom they were relieved by the great victory won by Barak in the' plain of Esdraelon, over the hosts of Jabin, commanded by Sisera, one of the most renowned generals of those times (Judg. iv, 10-16). See Siseka. The well-compacted power of the king of Hazor was not yet, however, entirely broken. The war was still prolonged for a time, but ended in the entire ruin of Jabin, and the subjugation of his territo- ries by the IsraeUtes (Judg. iv, 24). This is the Jabin whose name occurs in Psa. Ixxxiii, 10. See Hazok.
Jabineau, Henri, a French reUgious writer, bom at Etampes near the opening of the last century, was, after completing his studies at Paris, appointed profess- or at the yitry-le-Fran(;',ais CoUege on his refusal to subscribe the formulary generaUy submitted before a candidate is permitted to enter the priesthood. But his attainments were of such superior order that the arch- bishop of Chalons-sur-Marne waived this obligation, and Jabineau was consecrated a priest. He then be- came rector at the College of A'itry. But he soon ex- changed the rostrum for the pulpit, where, on account of his liberal views, he was several times interdicted. In 17G8 he entered the lawyer's profession, and during the Eevolution wrote a number of vehement articles against the French clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. He died in July, 1792, shortly before the publication of the decree of the National Assembly against priests (Aug. 2G, 1792). The most important of his writings- are, Competence de la puissance temporelle 7-elativement a Verection et a la suppression des sieges episcopaux (Par. 1760, 8vo ; 1790, and often) : — Exposition des principes de lafoi Catholique sur I'Eglise, recueillie des instructions familieres de M. Jab . . . (published shortly after liis death, Par. 1792, 8vo). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Geni- ra/e, xxvi, 142. (J.H.W.)
Jablonski, Daniel Ernst, a distinguished Ger- man theologian, was born at a little village near Dant- zic Nov. 2G, IGGO. The name of his father, a preacher, was originally Figulus, but he in after life exchanged it for Jablonski, deriving the name from that of his na- tive place, Jablunka, a smaU village in Silesia. Young Jablonski was educated at the gymnasium of Lyssa, in Prussian Poland, and at the University of Frankfort on the Oder (now constituting the Beriin University), where he applied himself to literature and philosophy, but more especially to theology and the Oriental lan- guages. In 1680 he visited the universities and libra- ries of Holland and England, and spent considerable time at Oxford. On his return in 1683 he was appoint- ed preacher at one of the reformed churches of ]Magde- burg, which place he left two years later in order to as- sume the rectorship of the gymnasium at Lyssa. In 1690 he was made court preacher at Konigsberg, and in 1693 his fame procured him the place of preacher to the king at Berlin. But stiU other honorable offices awaited him. Thus, in 1718, he was made a member of the Consistory, in 1729 a Cliurch councillor, and in 1733 he was elected president of the Royal Academy of Sci- ences at Berlin. At the request of the king, Frederick I, he labored earnestly, but unsuccessfully, to accomplish a union of the different Protestant churches. He died at BerUn IMay 25, 1741. The greater part of his life had been devoted to severe study, and he ^vas eminently successful as a preacher. Dr. Hagenbach (Hurst's transl. of Ch. Hist. oflSth and 19th Cent, i, 410, 412) says that Jablonski was a bishop among the Moravians (1698), and even was "the eldest of the Moravian bishops," and that he consecrated both David Nitschmaini (q. v.) and