Judges 4

And the sons of Israel resumed to do evil in the eyes of God after Ehud died.

And God sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. Now the commander of his army {was} Sisera, and he {was} dwelling in Harosheth Hagoyim.

Then the sons of Israel cried out to God, for 900 chariots of iron {were} to him, and he oppressed the sons of Israel with might 20 years. \*

Now Deborah, a woman, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she {was} judging Israel at that time.

And she {was} sitting beneath the Palm Tree of Deborah, between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the sons of Israel came up to her for justice. \*

And she sent and called for Barak, the son of Abinoam, from Kedesh Naphtali, and she said to him, “Has not God, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and draw out at Mount Tabor, and you shall take with you 10, 000 men from the sons of Naphtali and from the sons of Zebulun,

and I will draw out to you, to the wadi of Kishon, Sisera, the commander of the army of Jabin, and his chariotry and his multitude, and I will give him into your hand’?” \*

And Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, then I will go, but if you will not go with me, I will not go.”

And she said, “Going, I will go with you, only that it will not be your honor upon the way that you are going, for God will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh. \*

Then Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. And 10,000 men went up at his feet, and Deborah went up with him. \*

Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from Kain, from the sons of Hobab, the father-in-law of Moses. And he had pitched his tent near an oak tree in Zaanannim, which {is} near Kedesh. \*

And they reported to Sisera that Barak, the son of Abinoam, had gone up {to} Mount Tabor.

So Sisera summoned all of his chariotry, 900 chariots of iron, and all of the people who {were} with him, from Harosheth Haggoyim to the wadi of Kishon. \*

Then Deborah said to Barak, “Arise! For this {is} the day when God has given Sisera into your hand. Has not God gone out to the face of you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and 10,000 men {were} after him. \*

And God panicked Sisera and all of the chariotry and all of the army, to the mouth of the sword to the face of Barak. So Sisera descended from upon the chariot and fled on his feet.

But Barak pursued after the chariotry and after the army unto Harosheth Haggoyim, and all of the army of Sisera fell by the mouth of the sword. Not even one remained. \*

But Sisera fled on his feet to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for {there was} peace between Jabin, king of Hazor, and the house of Heber the Kenite.

And Jael went out to meet Sisera and she said to him, “Turn aside, my lord, turn aside to me. Do not fear.” So he turned aside to her, into the tent, and she covered him with a blanket. \*

And he said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a skin of milk and let him drink, and she covered him.

And he said to her, “Stand {at} the entrance of the tent, and it shall be, if anyone comes and asks you and says, ‘Is there anyone here?’ then you shall say ‘No one.’” \*

Then Jael, the wife of Heber, took a peg of the tent, and she put the hammer in her hand, and she came to him in secret, and she drove the peg into his temple and pounded {it} into the ground, for he was sleeping deeply and was weary, and he died.

And behold, Barak was pursuing Sisera, and Jael came out to meet him, and she said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.” So he came to her, and behold, Sisera had fallen dead, and the peg {was} in his temple. \*

So on that day God subdued Jabin, the king of Canaan, to the face of the sons of Israel.

For going, the hand of the sons of Israel went and {became} severe against Jabin, the king of Canaan, until that they destroyed Jabin, the king of Canaan. \*