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and warriors into a panic. Sisera leaped down from his chariot and escaped
on foot. Then Barak chased the chariots and the enemy army all the way
to H
arosheth-haggoyim, killing all of Sisera’s warriors. Not a single one
was left alive.
Meanwhile, Sisera ran to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite,
because Heber’s family was on friendly terms with King Jabin of Hazor.
Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Come into my tent, sir.
Come in. Don’t be afraid.” So he went into her tent, and she covered him
with a blanket.
“Please give me some water,” he said. “I’m thirsty.” So she gave him some
milk from a leather bag and covered him again.
“Stand at the door of the tent,” he told her. “If anybody comes and asks
you if there is anyone here, say no.”
But when Sisera fell asleep from exhaustion, Jael quietly crept up to him
with a hammer and tent peg in her hand. Then she drove the tent peg
through his temple and into the ground, and so he died.
When Barak came looking for Sisera, Jael went out to meet him. She
said, “Come, and I will show you the man you are looking for.” So he followed her into the tent and found Sisera lying there dead, with the tent
peg through his temple.
So on that day Israel saw God defeat Jabin, the Canaanite king. And from
that time on Israel became stronger and stronger against King Jabin until
they finally destroyed him.
On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song:
“Israel’s leaders took charge,
and the people gladly followed.
Praise the Lord!
“Listen, you kings!
Pay attention, you mighty rulers!
For I will sing to the Lord.
I will make music to the Lord, the God of Israel.
“Lord, when you set out from Seir
and marched across the fields of Edom,
the earth trembled,
and the cloudy skies poured down rain.
The mountains quaked in the presence of the Lord,
the God of Mount Sinai—
in the presence of the Lord,
the God of Israel.