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Deborah
4:1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the
sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.
4:2 And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of
Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was
Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
4:3 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he
had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he
mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
4:4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she
judged Israel at that time.
4:5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between
Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of
Israel came up to her for judgment.
4:6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of
Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of
Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor,
and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of
Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
4:7 And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera,
the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his
multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.
4:8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then
I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not
go.
4:9 And she said, I will surely go with thee:
notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be
for thine honor; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the
hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to
Kedesh.
4:10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and
he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah
went up with him.
4:11 Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of
Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from
the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim,
which is by Kedesh.
4:12 And they showed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam
was gone up to mount Tabor.
4:13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even
nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were
with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of
Kishon.
4:14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day
in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is
not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from
mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
4:15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots,
and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak;
so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away
on his feet.
4:16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the
host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of
Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a
man left.
4:17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of
Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace
between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the
Kenite.
4:18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him,
Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had
turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a
mantle.
4:19 And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little
water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of
milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
4:20 Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent,
and it shall be, when any man doth come and inquire of thee,
and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
4:21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and
took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and
smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the
ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
4:22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to
meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will show thee the
man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent,
behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.
4:23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan
before the children of Israel.
4:24 And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and
prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had
destroyed Jabin king of Canaan. |
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