JUDGES 4:14-24

14 Deborah now said to Barak: "Get up, for this is the day that Jehovah will certainly give Sisera into you hand. Is it not Jehovah that has gone out before you?" And Barak went descending from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men behind him. 15 And Jehovah begain to throw Sisera and all his war chariots and all the camp into confusion by the edge of the sword before Barak. Finally Sisera got down off the chariot and took to flight on foot. 16 And Barak chased after the war chariots and the camp as far as Harosheth of the nations, so that all the camp of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword. Not as much as one remained. 17 As for Sisera, he fled on foot to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the household of Heber the Kenite. 18 The Jael came on out to meet Sisera and said to him: "Turn this way, my lord, turn this way to me. Do not be afraid." So he turned aside to her into the tent. Later she covered him with a blanket. 19 In time he said to her: "Give me, please, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty." Accordingly she opened a skin bottle of milk and gave him a drink, after which she covered him. 20 And he went on to say to her: Stand at the entrance of the tent, and it must occur that if anybody comes and does ask you and says, 'Is there a man here?' 'No!'" 21 And Jael the wife of Heber proceeded to take a pin of the tent and to put the hammer into her hand. Then she went to him stealthily and drove the pin into his temples and beat it into the earth, while he was fast asleep and weary. So he died. 22 And, look! there was Barak pursuring Sisera. Jael now came on out to meet him and said to him: "Come and I shall show you the man you are looking for." So in he went to her, and, look! there was Sisera fallen dead, with the pin in his temples. 23 Thus God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the sons of Israel on that day. 24 And the hand of the sons of Israel went on getting harder and harder against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had cut off Jabin the king of Canaan.

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