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Now Ehud had died. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; and the commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then the sons of Israel cried to Yahweh; for he had 900 iron chariots, and he oppressed the sons of Israel severely for twenty years. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Now Deborah, a <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And she used to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>sit under 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 judgment. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then she sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, “Has not Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, and take with you 10,000 men from the sons of Naphtali and from the sons of Zebulun? <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And I will draw out to you Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>many <i>troops</i> to the river Kishon, and I will give him into your hand.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then 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.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So she said, “I will surely go with you; nevertheless, the honor shall not be yours on the journey that you are about to take, for Yahweh will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh, and 10,000 men went up <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>with him; Deborah also went up with him. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, from the sons of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far away as the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>oak in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then they told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So Sisera called together all his chariots, 900 iron chariots, and all the people who <i>were</i> with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the river Kishon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Deborah said to Barak, “Arise! For this is the day in which Yahweh has given Sisera into your hand; has not Yahweh gone out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with 10,000 men following him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Yahweh threw Sisera and all <i>his</i> chariots and all <i>his</i> camp into confusion with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera came down from <i>his</i> chariot and fled away on foot. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But Barak pursued the chariots and <i>all those in</i> the camp as far as Harosheth-hagoyim, and all the camp of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not even one remained. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Now Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite, for <i>there was</i> peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Turn aside, my master, turn aside to me! Do not be afraid.” And he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>rug. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then he said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>bottle of milk and gave him a drink; then she covered him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And he said to her, “Stand in the doorway of the tent, and it shall be if anyone comes and asks of you and says, ‘Is there a man here?’ that you shall say, ‘No.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg and placed a hammer in her hand and went secretly to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went through into the ground; for he was sound asleep and exhausted. So he died. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Now behold, Barak was pursuing Sisera, and Jael came out to meet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.” And he entered <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>with her, and behold, Sisera was lying dead with the tent peg in his temple. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the sons of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the hand of the sons of Israel went forth heavier and heavier against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had cut off Jabin the king of Canaan.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">4</span> Lit <i>woman prophetess</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Or <i>live</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Lit <i>multitude</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>at his feet</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Or <i>terebinth</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Or <i>blanket</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> A leather container<br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Lit <i>to</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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