(workmanship) "of the Gentiles" so called from the mixed races that inhabited it --a city in the north of the land of Canaan, supposed to have stood on the west coast of the lake Merom from which the Jordan issues forth in one unbroken stream. It was the residence of Sisera captain of Jabin king of Canaan, (Judges 4:2) and it was the point to which the victorious Israelites under Barak pursued the discomfited host and chariots of the second potentate of that name. (Judges 4:16)
Harosheth
Sisera had nine hundred iron chariots, and he lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles. The name appears only in the story of Deborah and Barak in Judges 4. Israel had been sold into the hand of Jabin, king of Canaan, and Sisera was his captain. From Harosheth he gathered the chariots and the people to the river Kishon, and after the battle Barak chased them all the way back to the same town. The place matters because it is where the oppressor’s strength was based. Read Judges 4 to see how that strength was broken.
3 verses
Judges
Judges 4:2
And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
Judges 4:13
And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
Judges 4:16
But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.
From Smith's Bible Dictionary
William Smith, 1884