in Ancient Geography, a place in the neighbourhood of the brook Kishon, whose inhabitants refusing to come to the affiance of their brethren when they fought with Sifera, were put under an anathema (Judges v. 23). "Curle ye Meroz, says the angel of the Lord; eu fe ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof: because," &c. Some have thought that Meroz is the same as Merus or Merom; and this F. Calmet thinks the most probable opinion in this matter. Others will have it, that Meroz was a mighty man, who dwelt near the Kishon, and not caring to come to the affiance of Barak and Deborah, was excommunicated by the angel of the Lord by the sound of 400 trumpets. The angel of the Lord, according to some, was Barak, the general of the Lord's army; but according to others he was the high priest for the time being, or a prophet.