Hazor (lit. enclosure) was the leading city in northern Canaan with an area of175 acres and a population of30 ,000 to40 ,000 people. [1] Archaeologists calculate the population of walled cities in Canaan as about200 people per acre. Hazor was at one time the head of an alliance of all the northern cities ( Joshua 11:10). [2] Jabin ( Joshua 11:1) may have been a title rather than a proper name (cf. Judges 4:2), or it may have been a personal name. [3][source]