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The commander of King Jabin's army was Sisera, who lived at Harosheth Haggoyim. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The people of Israel cried out to the LORD for help. King Jabin had 900 chariots made of iron and had cruelly oppressed Israel for 20 years.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Deborah, wife of Lappidoth, was a prophet. She was the judge in Israel at that time. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>She used to sit under the Palm Tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the mountains of Ephraim. The people of Israel would come to her for legal decisions. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Deborah summoned Barak, son of Abinoam, from Kedesh in Naphtali. She told him, "The LORD God of Israel has given you this order: 'Gather troops on Mount Tabor. Take 10,000 men from Naphtali and Zebulun with you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I will lead Sisera (the commander of Jabin's army), his chariots, and troops to you at the Kishon River. I will hand him over to you.'" <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Barak said to her, "If you go with me, I'll go. But if you don't go with me, I won't go." <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Deborah replied, "Certainly, I'll go with you. But you won't win any honors for the way you're going about this, because the LORD will use a woman to defeat Sisera." So Deborah started out for Kedesh with Barak. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Barak called the tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali together at Kedesh. Ten thousand men went to fight under his command. Deborah also went along with him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Heber the Kenite had separated from the other Kenites (the descendants of Hobab, Moses' father-in-law). Heber went as far away as the oak tree at Zaanannim near Kedesh and set up his tent.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The report reached Sisera that Barak, son of Abinoam, had come to fight at Mount Tabor. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So Sisera summoned all his chariots (900 chariots made of iron) and all his troops from Harosheth Haggoyim to come to the Kishon River. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then Deborah said to Barak, "Attack! This is the day the LORD will hand Sisera over to you. The LORD will go ahead of you." So Barak came down from Mount Tabor with 10,000 men behind him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The LORD threw Sisera, all his chariots, and his whole army into a panic in front of Barak's deadly assault. Sisera got down from his chariot and fled on foot. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth Haggoyim. So Sisera's whole army was killed in combat. Not one man survived.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Meanwhile, Sisera fled on foot toward the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite. Sisera did this because King Jabin of Hazor and Heber's family were on peaceful terms. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When Jael came out [of her tent], she met Sisera. She told him, "Sir, come in here! Come into my tent. Don't be afraid." So he went into her tent, and she hid him under a tent curtain. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Sisera said to her, "Please give me a little water to drink. I'm thirsty." But instead she gave him milk to drink and covered him up again. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He said to her, "Stand at the door of the tent. If anyone comes and asks if there has been a man around here, tell them no." <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>When Sisera had fallen sound asleep from exhaustion, Jael, Heber's wife, took a tent peg and walked quietly toward him with a hammer in her hand. She hammered the tent peg through his temples into the ground. So Sisera died. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Barak was still pursuing Sisera. When Jael came out [of her tent], she met him. She said to him, "Come in! I have something to show you-the man you've been looking for." So Barak went into her tent. He saw Sisera lying there dead with the tent peg through his temples.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>So on that day, God used the people of Israel to crush the power of King Jabin of Canaan. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The Israelites became stronger and stronger until they destroyed him.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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